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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:
  • "trunk box" (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 orphan 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.
  • peterkailabi@rocketmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "peter kailabi" <peterkailabi@rocketmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:26:01 +0000
Subject: KINDLY EMAIL BACK?


*Special information!

I am PETER KAILABI LARRY my father died three years ago in Greek air crash
near Athens after an apparent drop in cabin, leaving behind a consignment
box containing Fund and Gold's.

Please log on to this websites for more information about the air crash.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4150312.stm

This is why i have to contact you, before the death of my late father he
came to Ghana to deposit a trunk box of money containing $12.5 million US.
Dollars. Which he got from the sales of his Gold and Diamonds and he package
this money into a metallic box and underneath the money are gold's which he
kept there safely for future purposes. After he hard deposited the box with
the security company he was been issued some documents and he handed the
same documents to me as his next of kin.

I want you to help me as my foreign beneficiary to claim the box containing
money and gold's. The reason for me asking you to help me is that my late
father undertake an agreement with the security company that unless i
provides a foreign partner/beneficiary, that the company should not release
the trunk box to me.

I wait for your kindness reply so that this transaction could be facilitated
easily.

Thanks
PETER KAILABI LARRY.
peterkailabi@rocketmail.com



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