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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Cliffordmokon Mokon <cliffordmokonmokon@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: ositaall@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:51:39 -0800 (PST)
Subject: YOUR URGENT RESPONSE IS NEEDED


Dear sir/madam


It's my utmost joy to contact you towards my consignment box which my father left for me as the next of kin.let me first introduce myself to you so that you will know whom you are dealing with.Am Clifford Mokon origin Congo east Africa.my father chief Mokon Williams is very wealthy and left a family consignment box in a Diamond security company in Ghana and has my name as the next of kin.But his security code of signature is that the consignment box must be claim with me with his foreign partner abroad because he doesn't want the money to be invested in an African country due to the fact of unstablity of the Africa economy process.

The consignment is cash of fourty five million dollars and golds,(45 million USD, i want you to stand as my foreign beneficiary to clear the box from the Diamond security company.Percentages have been set aside on this transaction, for expenses 5%,Offernage 5% my beneficiary 30 percent.My periority is to invest this money out side the country as my father's instruction before he deasesed.I and my sister Evlyn are the only people that knows the box content.Hope to hear from you soonest.


Thankz,
ClIFFORD MOKON
NEXT OF KIN



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