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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: doris kossa <dorisoo9@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 19:58:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: YOUR HELP NEEDED


Dearest one

Thanks for your response, let me give Brief information about myself, my name is Doris Kossa the only surviving daugther of late Mr Donatus Kossa, may his soul rest in perfect peace. I am an under graduate studying geolgy at East legon university Ghana Before the death of my father, he was a cocoa merchant and he was also in the government of my country. He was assasinated with my mother and my two elder brothers by the rebels during the heat of the war in my country. The rebels claim that my father was in surport of the government during the war that devided my country into two part.

Luckily for me, I was away in the burden school in Ghana a neighbouring country. It was on the BBC Africa that I heard about the tragic death of my parents and brothers but my father was still alive at the time of gun shot and was ruched to the hospital. I was taken to the hospital where he was recieving treatment for gun wounds. One week before his death, he called me to his bed side at the hospital and handed a document to me. The document is covering a deposit of eight million U.S dollars (U.S$16.8 000.000.00) which he deposited in a security company vault in Africa. According to him he said this money is meant to establish his business in europe after his retirement. He instructed me to look for a trust worthy partner in over sea to confide the release of the fund into his account and relocate to his country to establish the money on a lucrative business and live my life quietly.

Why am contacting you, I need your assistance in the following:

1 Can i trust you to stand as my foriegn partner .
2.Help to invest the money on a lucrative investment in your country.

3.Help me secure an accormodation and a school to complite my studies after the fund is transferd to you.

4.Help to manage the investment for the minimum of five years or to form a partnership with you.

5.Serve as my partner and guidiance in your country during my relocation to your country.

Regarding this transaction, I offer you 20% for your assistance and 5% for any expencies expences over the transaction immediately the transfer is made into your account.

Note: Please if you can assist me inform me as soon as possible so that i will introduce you to the Finace company to start with the transfer.

Waiting for you urgent reply.

Yours sincerely,
Doris Kossa




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