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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• 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.
  • peterabey2007@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • petergaga_20062007@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Peter Abey." <peterabey12@gmail.com>
Reply-To: peterabey2007@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:48:47 -0700
Subject: peter,


*Investment proposal
From: Peter Abey,
Accra-Ghana.
Tel: +233 245059599.
Email:* *peterabey2007@gmail.com*
*
Dear Friend,
First I must solicite your strictest confidence in this transaction and I
pray that my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval
considering the facts you and I just meet in the net. I wish to use this
opportunity to introduce myself to you; I am Peter Abey, from
Sierra-Leone.*
*
I write you to let you know my desires to invest in your country; I am the
first son of Jonathan Abey, who was the former Minister of Mines and
Industry. My father and my junior sister had some bullet wounds which they
sustained from the rebels on their way traveling to the Capital city
Freetown. My sister died on the spot while (U.N) Peace keeping force rescued
my father, he later died after eleven months.*
*
Before his death he told me about a trunk box containing $18.5 million U.S
Dollars which he deposited with a security company. He said I should claim
it to take care of my self and my Mother. He warned me never to go to
Sierra-Leone for my safety. My late father deposited the fund in the
security company in Ghana for safe keeping of the fund.
Presently, my mother and I are here in Accra Ghana West Africa to notify the
security company for the claims of the FUND, and we are staying in the
refugee camp.*
*
Therefore I want you to lecture me on how best we can invest this money in
your country and as I told you, I really wanted to buy a house when I come
there. My father told me it is dangerous to invest this money in Africa to
avoid suspicion, due to bad economy and political instability facing Africa
countries that is why I want to invest it abroad and you should assist me to
arrange for that.*
*
**For your foreign assistance we have agreed to offer 15% of the total
amount of the money. We have all the vital documents covering the deposit
fund and the ownership which I can send to you on request.*
*
NOTE: I have never disclosed this to any person apart from you, so you have
to keep this matter very confidential. Send me your Private phone and fax
numbers for more information and a brief description of yourself for mutual
relationship.*

*Reach me on my private Email:*
*peterabey2007@gmail.com*<petergaga_20062007@yahoo.de>
*Best Regards,
Peter Abey.*

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