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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:
  • "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)
  • "million united state 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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "keep it 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)
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: sanco_40@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 05:26:47 -0800 (PST)
Subject: How are you today,



Good Day, My Friend.=20
I know you may be surprised to receive this letter from me since you do not=
know me personally. Is very necessity for me to introduce myself? I am Joh=
n Danco, The first son of late Dr Sammy Danco, who was killed by rebels of =
opposition party in my country Liberia .=20
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Is because my late father was a political struggler, and he die on the stru=
ggle, before my father died, he reviews to me and my mother that he deposit=
ed a consignment box in a security company in Ghana for security reason. Th=
at the box contain $15,000,000,00 USD (fifteen million united state dollars=
).Which all the documents show that=A0 my name was on it as the next of kin=
handover to me by my late father before he died,=20
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When myself and my mother now came to Ghana to look for the security compan=
y knows as worldwide insurance and security company LTD. For lamed the mana=
ger of the security company told me and my mother that, the consignment box=
cannot be release to us. He as well made us to understand that, at the tim=
e my father was depositing the consignment box, he made an agreement with t=
hem that the box should not be release to any of his family member without =
a foreign beneficiary. That was why it was mandatory for me to contact you =
to assist us claim the consignment box as my late father foreign beneficiar=
y.=20
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For your information the security company did not know the content of what =
is inside the consignment box, because my father told them at the time of d=
epositing the consignment box that it contains family precious items. The c=
ompany did not know that it contain money. This is top secret I am revealin=
g to you now. Because if the should know, the officials of the security com=
pany might decide to raise there eye brows on the fund. Which is dangerous =
so, keep it confidential to yourself four both of us success in this transa=
ction.=20
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Please In your next mail kindly forward your direct telephone number and fa=
x number so that I will feed you with more information about this transacti=
on also I will feed you with all document covering this fund=20
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Please in the name of God keep this transaction top secrete you know secret=
e go with success; kindly gat back soon.=20
Regards=20
John Danco,=0A=0A=0A

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