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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million us 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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: chi tex <chi120tex@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 14:28:20 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: how are you my friend



Dear friend, how is your day? I hope you
are fine. If so, glory be to God he how has made it for us to see this
new day. Dear, I know my mail may come to you as a surprise or as a
story, but even if is a story it a true story. Dear, I need your help
and this is the kind of help I want from you. My elder brother who was
a politician and had plans to becoming a governor in our state. So
before the time of the election,some groups of armed men came into our
house, about 2:o'clock AM and these people were sent by the opposition
party and they shot him dead. So after some months when we decided
to pack his properties back to the village, I discovered a certain
document in his bedroom, that shows that he deposited some money to a
certain Security Company. The money he was to be used for his
campaign before he died. It is a sum of $1.5 million US dollars.Now my
father is dead because of my brother death came to him as a shock. I
cannot go and claim this money, because I am a woman and also
single. I discuss it with my friend and she advised me to Look for a
help and explain to the person and see if i could obtain any help
and claim this money out of the hands of this Security Company. I
wouldn't mind giving you 40% out of this money. So what i want you to
do for me is that, you will send an information about yourself so that
i can use it and change this document to your name and send it back to
you.So that you can use it and claim this money. Dear friend, you may
be wondering why it must have be you, the reason is that because of
the position of my brother by then in the government, he couldn't
save the money by himself to avoid him answered a quarry on how he got
that money for his cam pan . So he saved it through an Egyptian friend
who is a white man. So that is why i needed a white man to come and
clam it so that the present of the person will be recognize in the
company. My belove one, as you have made up you mine to help me God
will bless you and enlarge your account in Jesus name amen THANKS from
chi chi from Ghana. PLEASE you can call me through this number +233
277837483 for more verification.Am waiting for your reply



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