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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "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)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • emmanuelkam_2@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Emmanuel Kamara GOD WITH US <emmanuelkam_2@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: emma_kam@rediffmail.com
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:08:16 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Hello..please come to our rescue . God bless you


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: emmanuelkam_2@yahoo.com



- Dearest one, Relieved a warm greetings... I am ( Emmanuel Kamara ) from Democratic republic of congo DRC africa. i write to inform you my desire to have joint investment, and to buy a living house in your country. I live in Ghana with my mother who is very sick due to the sudden death of my late father and my two sisters ,in the present war crisis going on in our country Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R.C) and we were among the people rescued to Ghana by UN Forces. Before my father died he revealed to me and my mother about the boxes containing: (45 kilos) of gold dust unrefined and the other one is ($16.5 us, sixteen million five hundred thousand us dollars) which he deposited with one of the leading and reputable insurance security & finance company in africa located in GHANA for safe keeping. my father did not disclose any of the content of the boxes to the security company, to avoid the officials from raising eye brows to the funds. presently my mother and my!
self are here in Ghana to notify the security company for the claims, and we are staying in the refugee camp, because we can not afford to rent house in the city, besides all the vital documents covering the deposit transaction is intact in our position. we have map out 25% for you and 5% aside for any expenses that you might incur during the process of this transaction 20% to buy a living house in your country and the remaining 50% will be for our joint investment. Note: we have never disclosed this to any person apart from you, so you have to keep this transaction as a top secret to yourself alone. which we will want you to forward across to us your direct tel/fax (mobile) the front page of your traveling passport (scan copy) for more details. Yours truly, Emmanuel Kamara. visit is website:http://current.com/items/89544743/crisis_in_congo.htm

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