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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:
  • "00,000.00" (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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024028862 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • kc.ahmad@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Kingsley Ahmed" <kahmedsalim@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: kc.ahmad@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 16:52:13 +0100
Subject: Trust


Greetings! I am Kingsley Ahmed the son of late Ben Salim Ahmed from Sudan
residing in London. Please i contact you in good faith and clean heart so i
want you to let me trust you to be able to handle this deal for me and on my
behalf.

I have an inherited US$5,800,000.00 plus 150 Kilos of Alluvial Gold Dust
deposited with the International Commercial Bank Ltd in Accra - Ghana by my
late father and I need your assistance to claim it from the bank in Ghana
and have it transferred to your bank account in your country. I called the
bank managing director in Ghana inquiring of my inherited funds and gold and
they told me that I cannot lay claims to it direct and by myself as what my
late father indicated in the deposit document was his foreign partner as
next of kin and beneficiary to the funds and gold with them so I want you to
stand as my late father's foreign partner so I contacted you to act as my
late father's foreign partner in helping me get the money and gold
transferred into your account. I will offer you 20% of the total amount and
10 kilos of the gold and will also need your professional advice in
investing my own part of the funds and gold in a good business that will
yield good income for me in the near future.

You can call me on my phone: +447024028862 and get back to me by email:
kc.ahmad@gmail.com

Name: Kingsley Ahmed.
Tel: +447024028862 or 07024023931
Email: kc.ahmad@gmail.com

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