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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "any lucrative business in your country" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united state dollars" (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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: tega mensah <tega_mensah11@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <tega_mensah2@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:44:52 +0000
Subject: URGENTLY




Good Day Sir, I know my email will come to your as a surprise, base on the fact that we haven’t met or seen each other before, but beside, i only got your email during a research in the Internet, I am Tega Mensah, son of late Lawrence Mensah formal Zimbabwe High Commissioner to South Africa, who was killed during Peace keeping Demonstration in Harare, Capital City of Zimbabwe two years ago, by some unknown Gunmen. I’m seeking for your immediate assistance, in respect of my late father Consignment box containing $12million United State dollars, he deposited with the Management of Kotoka International Airport Security Warehouse for transfer abroad, before his death, with an inscription Foreign Business Partner Oversea as next of kin, to avoid the Content of the Box from been detected, all I’m seeking for now, is your immediate assistance, by standing in for the claim of the fund, as my late father’s Business Partner Oversea who is next of kin, over the Box, by sending your following details, Front Page of your international Passport & number, Direct cell phone & Fax Number.
Residential & Office Address, for to present before the Management of the Kotoka International Airport Security Warehouse, here in Ghana, as my late father’s business partner oversea applying for the claim and transfer of the box oversea for proper investment of the content in any lucrative business in your country, while you relocate me to join you there to further my education, as soon as the box is successfully transferred to your possession in your country. Do hope you understand.Eagerly wait for your immediate respond. You can write me with this email address below.tega_mensah2@yahoo.comGod Bless, TEGA MENSAH.

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