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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:
  • "million american 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)
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "David Kofi" <davidkofi20032@gmail.com>
Reply-To: davidkofi33@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:48:46 +0100
Subject: Hello


Hello Dear,
I am David Kofi .From Sierra Leone, but now in Ghana and I am contacting
you because I need your help in the management of a sum of money that my
dead father left for me before he died.This money is USD 22.5 million
American Dollars and the money is in the Global Security Company here in
Accra, Ghana in West Africa in Accra Ghana My father was a very rich Gold
farmer and he was poisoned by his business colleagues and now .
I want you to stand as my guiding and appointed beneficiary as foreign
partner and receive the money and the Box of Gold in your country since
I am only 22 years and without mother and father. The information is that
the money and the Gold will be transferred to you so that you will get me
papers to travel to your country to continue my life there. and i will send
you all the documentation that's backing the claim so that you can as well
made the claim be for is too late.I am waiting for your urgent reply.

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