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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:
  • "transfer into your account" (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.
  
• 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.
  • adjara_k206@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "adjara koure" <adjara_k2006@latinmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 23:43:02 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Hello my dear,


Hello my dear,

Compliment of the day, I=92m Mme.Adjara Koure from Accra Ghana. After a=
very deep prayer and fasting i have with my children, I deemed it nece=
ssary to disclose this important issue. I lost my husband during the re=
bel attacked in 2004 in cote d ivoire.

Before his death, he had an account with a bank in Accra Ghana, a nearb=
y country to our own country,where he made a deposit of $ usa 4.5 Milli=
ons Dollars. This money was for the purchase of cocoa processing machin=
es and development of another factory,unfortunately he did not meet his=
target before his untimely death.

Why I contacted you, due to the agreement he had with the bank during d=
eposit, I=92ve been denied total access to the money, the bank Manager =
told me precisely that the money was deposited in a suspense fixed acco=
unt with a clause attached to it for onward transfer into a foreign acc=
ount.=20

That the bank will follow the agreement written and signed by both (the=
bank and my husband). I was advised to look for a foreign account wher=
e the money can be transferred before I can have access to it.

Since security here cannot be guaranteed besides, I have lost my husban=
d, I hereby ask you to do me a favour by standing as my late husband=92=
s foreign business partner and the beneficiary of the money to enable t=
he bank effect the transfer into your account.

I have plans to invest this money in continuation with the investment v=
ision of my late husband, but not in this place again rather in a more =
advance and secured country like yours. please if you are willing to a=
ssist me and my children,indicate your interest in replying soonest.

Thanks for your anticipated corporation,

Mme Adjara Koure.

E mail;(adjara_k206@yahoo.co.uk)

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