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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge amount of money" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • james_uta2@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
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Fraud email example:

From: "david kimball" <okpokimball@gawab.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 06:34:56 GMT
Subject: Goodday

Dear Partner
Am very sorry for this unsolicited mail to you, I am aware that this is certainly not a conventional way of approach to establish a relationship of trust, but you will realize the need for my action,pls read this mail for God sake, why I decide to reach through this medium.
 
my name is James Akol I am a citizen of Southern Sudan the  son of the late Chief Dr Uta Akol  who work as an expatriate engineer  with the foreign government in Sudan 1999 to export at the Oil Venture to foreign country but unfortunately he was killed by rebels during political problem in my country Sudan 2005. When the government of Sudan try to investigate the profit of the Oil been export out of Port Sudan, so the opposition leaders disrupt the Oil operational and cause war in Sudan.  Before my Father's death he made my mother to understand that he deposited some huge amount of money in a security company in Ghana West Africa, which he Made from sales of gold and Oil business in Africa Market and he gave my mother all relevant document of the trunk box Which he deposited (marked) as family belonging.
 
I and my mother were able to move out from  Sudan through the UNITED NATION, that Coven refugee from Sudan to Accra Ghana, West Africa. Because we want to make the claims of the trunk box content $15 Million Dollar Because my late father deposit the One Trunk Box/Diplomatic Personal Treasure so that nobody should knows about the content of the box here in africa. So I am hereby soliciting your assistance to be my foreign partner and adviser because: I do not know much about investment or how to handle this funds,here in Ghana that is why  we need your assistance as a foreign partner to help us to move this funds out of Africa for security reason to your country,
 
Please if you are interested to help us please promise us to keep this transaction confidentiality  because nobody knows about the existence of this funds I and my mother agreed to give you "Twenty Percent" of the total sum of the funds inside the trunk box, your compensation for the assistance is negotiable,
 
If you really want to be sure about this  and before you agree to assist us to stand as my foreign partner for you to know am not joking kindly make trip to come to meet me in Ghana in person so that we meet face to face,so kindly get back to me for more details how to discuss with the security company.
I wait for your immediate response so that I give you more details.
 
Thanks and God bless
James Akol
james_uta2@yahoo.de

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