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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:
  • "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)
  • "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: glotovs jevgenijs <jevglotovs2007@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:54:26 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: DEAR RESPECTFUL


Dear Respectful
My name is Glotovs Jevgenijs,i am 16 years old and an orphan.My late father died in Russian Airplane crash on July 10, 2006.I lost my father on the ill fated Plane when he took a connecting flight en route to my Country Latvia.For details about the crash,please,see website: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/09/russia.crash/index.html
However,my late father was a successful man who served as technical engineer to the NATIONAL GAS OIL COMPANY LIMITED,here in Accra-Ghana,were we lived before he left back to my country, LATVIA.Before the death of my father,he told me that he deposited "two metal boxes" with the COURIER SECURITY COMPANY OF GHANA with the below details:
ENGR:DAVIDSON GLOTOVS
COUNTRY:LATVIA
AMOUNT:US$9.645.000.00
YEAR:6TH JULY 2004
This was the actual reason why he left Ghana to my country Latvia to arrange on our arrival with the consignments to avoid any misconduct because that is all our hope.
The total NINE MILLION SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND AMERICA DOLLARS was packaging in metal boxes without the knowledge of the security company to avoid much payments and I have contacted the COURIER SECURITY COMPANY and they told me that i am free to come and claim the consignments as the only son of my late father.
Now,i am presently living with our house help who is taking care of my school and she is very wicked to me.He has seized all my late father,s properties and sold them away without giving me anything.Now,i don,t want her to know about the consignments with the COURIER SECURITY COMPANY that is why i am contacting you to give me urgent assistance so that i can instruct the COURIER SECURITY COMPANY to ship the consinments to you, to enable me come to meet you in your country.
My main reason of contacting you is because i don,t want our house help to know about the deposited consignments because she may claim it and seize the money and i will not get anything.
I am assuring you that this money belong to my late father and it is safe,risk free and legal.
Let me know if your ready to help me on this so that i can give you the detail information of the SECURITY COMPANY,and we reach and agreement on what will be your share.
I am waiting for your reply.
My regards,
Mr. Glotovs Jevgenijs


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