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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)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "the consignment" (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.
  • princejonathankamoka@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Prince jonathan kamoka" <princejonathankamoka@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:48:02 +0800
Subject: Dear faithful friend


Dear Friend,
My name is Prince. Jonathan Kamoka am from Sierra-Leone but I am
presently a refugee staying in Ghana. I am writing to solicit your
assistance in the transfer of my consignment box which worth $12,000.000.00
million U.S dollars which my late father deposited in a private security
company here in Ghana.

This amount of money was deposited by my late father who was a diamond
dealer in the Sierra-Leone before he was killed with my mother by the
Revolutionary United Front ( RUF) rebels. Before the death of my father, he
told me about this private and secret deposit he made with a security
company here in Ghana and all related documents to the deposit of the
consignment are with me and in my name as the next of kin.

Presently I am in Ghana where I sought asylum and I have contacted the
security company to confirm the existence of the deposited consignment,
after having confirmed that, I spoke to our refugee lawyer who is a human
right activist lawyer and he advised me that I have to bring in somebody
like a relative from oversea who will stand for me as a foreign beneficiary
and assist me to claim the consignment because I cannot claim it because I
have a refugee status at the moment and the fiscal policy of Ghana forbid a
refugee to own over $150 and as such if I proceed with my request to claim
the consignment, that it will be seized by the government.

so I have been advised by the human right activist lawyer who attend the
same church with me that I should find a foreign partner abroad and then
transfer the ownership of the consignment to him or her and after having
legally transferred the ownership ,then the Security company will be
requested to transfer consignment containing the money to you as my foreign
beneficiary in your country and after that you can help me process my
traveling documents to travel and join you in your country for you to help
me invest the money so that i can continue my education in your country to
be a doctor.

My purpose of contacting you is to appoint you as my beneficiary so that
we will make a legalized change of ownership to your name as my foreign
beneficiary and instruct the security company to deliver the two consignment
boxes to you in your country. I agree to give you 15% and 10% will be used
for all the expense of the total money for your role. please reply me with
this email address: ( princejonathankamoka@gmail.com ) to show your
interest in my proposal and I know that God will bless you as you help me.

God Bless you,
Prince Jonathan Kamoka.

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