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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "the consignment" (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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • barr_johnsonkwaku@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: BARRISTER JOHNSON KWAKU <barrjohnson4@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <barr_johnsonkwaku@excite.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 13:31:44 +0000
Subject: YOUR URGENT REPLY IS HIGHLY NEEDED






Dear Friend,


I, am Barrister JOHNSON KWAKU Esq {Property and Inheritance Lawyer}. I understand you don’t know me and I don’t know much about you, but I will be very pleased if this transaction will make us know each other as we both are going to benefit from helping AMINA here in Ghana.

I, am a solicitor, for a 18yrs old girl AMINA YAKUBU, she is the daughter of late ALHAJI IBRAHIM YAKUBU, a gold dealer and oil merchant in republic of SUDAN, who was killed by the Sudanese rebels due to Crisis that erupted in their country.Before his death he has secretly deposited two metallic boxes (CONSIGNMENTS) with a security company here in Accra, Ghana and have let it known to his only daughter AMINA, as at the time of deposit.

At the moment my client AMINA YAKUBU is here in Ghana , at the Budumburam Refugee Camp.
Infact her situation is very bad in the Camp, and she is having $6.5Million in one of the boxes and the other contains GOLDS, but the late father deposited it as family valuable and that was the information he told AMINA as at the time of deposit, not until about One year after his death, that AMINA found out in a secret diary the true contents and the documents showing the deposit of the consignments in the Security Company.

AMINA Late Father ALHAJI IBRAHIM YAKUBU warned that AMINA should not go back to their country. AMINA wants to continue her education in a foreign country under the supervision of a well-trusted person. I want you to stand as the foreign beneficiary for this. This transaction is 100% risk free. Note that for your time and help, 20% of the funds and the GOLDS is yours, and 5% of the fund is for any expenses incurred both locally and internationally in the course of the shipment of these consignments and 5% will be for me the family Lawyer, then the remaining 70% is for AMINA YAKUBU to enable her start life in your country with your support.

When you reply I will tell you things you need to do. Thanks for your understanding. I will make sure everything is done under legal grounds with out any breach of our local laws and any international laws. If it is necessary for you to come I will let you know ASAP.
Please feel free to write me as soon as possible to my private email –
barr_johnsonkwaku@excite.com, hope to hear from you soon.
BEST Regards
Barrister JOHNSON KWAKU
KWABENA CHAMBERS
Direct E-mail: barr_johnsonkwaku@excite.com


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