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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:
  • "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 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.
  • samkone65@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "SAMUEL KONE" <samkone@gmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: samkone65@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:45:59 +0700
Subject: It is Genuine let try it

I may have not known you well but I do hope that this investment opportunity will allowed us to know each other well, I need to seek a confidential matter from you. I am a senior Auditor heading computing department here in our bank. am residing here in Asia. On my routine inspection I discovered a dormant domiciliary account with a Balance of ($12.Million USD}plus raw gold worth of 4 million dollars and after much verification of the real owner I discover that the man died in plane crash last year.please we are not really interested in the fiscal cash because problem will come out of it rather on the Gold

Now I write to seek your indulgence and assistance in transferring this Gold to your country through legal means through our bank to your company.

My proposition is for you to stand-in as the next of kin to the Depositor only. As stated above, he died without making his WILL on any bodies name". I shall be able to employ the services of an attorney to arrange the transfer of rights and privileges of the deceased to you and to make this transfer to a designated company in your country for investment. At the conclusion of this transaction, you will be given 40% of the total gold cost, 55% will be for me and my colleagues who will help make this business a success. While we shall use the balance of 5% to sort for unforeseen matters/
Let me know if you can handle it. And if you CAN just add the CODE: LXD5550 to your reply when replying back
Regards,

SAMUEL KONE
Samkone65@yahoo.com

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