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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 - 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 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.
  • togar2000@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "togar_y11@terra.es" <togar_y11@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:20:02 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: PLEASE HELP ME




Dearest,

=20
My name is Togar Yeane. I am the son of Joseph Yeane from the Republic of s=
ierra Leone.My family and I have been unfortunate to find ourselves caught =
up in a very difficult situation. You may be surprise to receive this lette=
r, but it is of utmost importance to me and my family
I am about to entrust my destiny and the destiny of my whole depends on you=
, if you can help me, it will also be of immense benefit to you too. This m=
atter demands utmost trust, honesty, integrity and most important.

It is only through the above that my family and I will be assured of our se=
curity. This regrettable situation led to the killing of my father and my o=
nly sister and displacement of my family. During the brutal civil war in my=
country, my late father of blessed memory was brutally murdered by the REB=
ELS - Mr. Foday Sankoh.
I managed to escape to this country (Accra-Ghana), through the help of the =
International Rescue Committee (IRC). Before my late father's death, he dre=
w my attention to one of his access containing some large amount of dollar=
s which he smuggled out at the start of the war to a security company in Gh=
ana, the security company does not know the real contents of the box accord=
ing to what my father told me.

My father registered the property in my name, he also gave me the certifica=
te of deposit and some other papers issued to him by the security company, =
which I still have in my possession. The problem I have is that as a refuge=
e, the immigration law does not allow us to open, hold or operate bank acco=
unt in Ghana and I do not want to seek the assistance of just anybody for f=
ear of being duped or defrauded of our only livelihood.
my father deposited the property in my name because of my future. I serious=
ly need your help to move the property out of Africa because if I tamper wi=
th it here in Africa, government may seize it because of my small age, I am=
21 years old now, please help me for God sake.

What is holding me here in this country is the property, the life inside re=
fugee camp is not easy, it=E2=80=99s a very bad situation, hence the Britis=
h Government and UN is not really taking care of us. The property and I hav=
e make necessary arrangement legitimately for the transfer of the property =
out of Africa; only what I need is someone who will receive it in abroad th=
at is why I contact you.
I intend to invest the money on a good business, at the same time we will u=
se part to assist the orphanage Child who are suffering, most especially we=
the refugees. I will be looking forward to hear from you, as I believe tha=
t destiny has brought us together.

Kindly email me back to: togar2000@myway.com=20
=20
Togar Yeane.






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