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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:
  • "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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "M.S. AHMED" <mk.smith@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: mksmith1977@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:45:53 +0100
Subject: My Wishes


Greetings!

I am Mark Smith Ahmed the son of late Ben Salim Ahmed from Sudan residing in
London. I saw your contact email while browsing through the internet so I
decided to contact you hoping you can be trusted to handle this matter and
not betray me like Mr. Roberto Del Piero of Italy who ran away with my late
father's US$8.8Million when the funds was transferred to his account and
changed his location and phone number. Till this moment I have not been able
to locate him. 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 will offer
you 20% of the total amount and 3 kilos of the gold and also come over to
your country to invest the balance of everything in your country or any part
of the world based on your professional advise.I am now in Ghana pursuing
this matter myself but cannot do it alone as it requires my ;ate father's
foreign partner to claim the monies and gold. I need your great assistance
in this and you
can call me on this number: +233 249 354746 and get back to me by email.


Mark Smith Ahmed.
+233 249 354746

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