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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • alfred_alans_s@yahoo.com.au (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "alfred alans" <alfred.alans1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 03:07:52 -0700
Subject: CAN TYRUST YOU WITH THIS FUNDS?


Attn: ,

I will want to know from you directly now, if it will be possible for both
of us to invest this funds in your country. I do not know you in person, but
I have your contact from some one I met on my way to Ghana from U.S.A regard
to this transfer. All the same, I am now in Ghana and I have met with the
consign banker's and arrange the transfer without any problem.

The funds where deposited here in Ghana by my late boss and I have all legal
documents to allow me transfer the funds to any foreign partner of mine as
the assistant director to my late Boss. The amount is [$65.300.000 US
Dollars].

Now the bank have ask me to provide foreign account they will use to
transfer the funds and that is the more reason I am contacting you. All I
need from you is just the account data where the funds will be transfer into
and also with the preparation of legal proceedings documents required to
solidify the facilitation of the transfer, which is all.

I wait your urgent reply and bank information's as the funds can be transfer
to you immediately all the legal requirements between you and I are intact
and that includes your account information's.

Bye.

DD ALFRED ALANS JR.

TEL+233 24 3886227. alfred_alans_s@yahoo.com.au

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