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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:
  • "million us 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)
  • "my names are " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • sarakonjoma01@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Sara Konjoma <kadlec.plyn@iol.cz>
Reply-To: konjoma01@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:22:47 GMT
Subject: HELLO..




Dear,
My names are Sara Konjoma 25 years from Rewanda Tutsi tribe of Rewanda.Iam presently in London were i have seek asylum for the past two yearsnow.I wish to brief you a little about my tradgedy that happened duringthe civil war between the two tribes of Rewanda called Hutus and Tutsi.IWAS A VICTIM.

My parents were both killed along with my two younger brother leaving mealone because i ran away for my dear live.We were very much aware aboutthe genocide before my parenst were killed because when it started untilthe day i loose my families ,then we were inside our house for about fivedays.On the sixth day my father called me inside been his seniour daughterand gave me his secret file containing a deposit certificate of moneydeposited here in a London bank, amount 10 million us dollars.I fled fromRewanda to south Africa and then from South Africa i was bunked into aship down here to the United Kingdom.

I need you to please help me stand claims for this funds to be transferedto your country in other for me to have a stable life there in yourcountry when i relocate to meet you.I wish to have a free way of utilisingthis funds and i choose to leave London because i have been briefed by alawyer that asisted me here in the Refugee camp that the task rate here is too high.

I am choosing to relocate from this country and hoping to give out 20 %share of the funds to you and also you will assist me to invest the moneyright there in your country.Please if you are realy interested in helpingme then reply me through my private email sarakonjoma01@yahoo.com.hk , and i will give you more details and the contact of the lawyer that willhelp us complete this funds transfer.

I look forward to hear from you as soon as posible.

Sara Konjoma

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