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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. 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)
  • "million 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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • usmha_22@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: usuma hamend <usmha39@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <usmha_22@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:10:58 +0000
Subject: Greeting



Greeting
Dear Sir, I am very sorry to bother you with my mail. Please know that it's not by mistake I am contacting you but by the special grace of God. After searching for someone I can lay my plight to, I’ve finally come with you after prayers to God. My name is (Usuma hamend )from Liberia. I am 20. My father and I escaped from our country at the heat of the civil war after loosing my mother and two of my senior sisters in the war. They were raped and shot.
My father established his cocoa business in Accra, Ghana. He was in Accra, to negotiate for the purchase a field when he was involved in an auto crash. There is a big problem here and the people here hate foreigners. He was hospitalized before he finally gave up. His death has now made me an orphan and I am exposed to danger. As I write, foreigners are attacked on daily basis.
Before the sudden death, my father called me to his side and told me he have a consignment being deposited in a security company and the content of the box is money which the company did not know as money except me. And the box contain total sum of $7,000,000 million dollars deposited in a security company here in Accra. He said he used me his only surviving child as his next of kin to the deposit and incase he fails to make it that I should take care of myself and get someone to help invest the money for me. I have all the papers with me here. I have confirm from the company all the papers he gave me on the deposit.
I asked them to give me the consignment but they showed me the paper my dad signed with them that I must provide foreign beneficiary to claim the consignment out before they can release it for me. They told me that my dad made a provision that my guardian can manage the consignment on my behalf. Please this is where I need you pleased. I am suffering here without money and since he died, I have not gone to school again while there is money lying in there please i need help. I have tried to locate any of my family but all to no avail and this is why I have decided to get one for my self to assist me in getting the money out. I will do all you want from me provided it’s within my reach and the will of Allah. I trust you because I trust Allah never to lead me astray.
Please help me. I have just told them that my guardian will contact them because I don’t want them to take advantage of me that i have no guardian. I want you to stand for me as my guardian or beneficiary to contact the security company. Tell them you are my guardian and because of the crisis here, you want me to be with you where you can take better care of me. Please help save my life please. Please I trust you because I trust in Allah. Again, As soon as the money has been transferred, to assist me with a letter of invitation that will make me get a visa to your country for residence in order for me to continue my education and to invest the money in a viable business there.
This money can take care of me there without any problem and please I need you to manage the money for me, as this is my last hope in life. I am ready to do anything you want provided you help me. You can Have 20 percent of the money if you help me. If this is acceptable to you, send me a mail through my e-mail account: usmha_22@yahoo.com so that I can know you more.
Allah Bless you.
Sincerely yours,
Usuma hamend









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