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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 - that's what the scam is about)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Foday Kabbah" <foday_kabbah0@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:46:15 +0000
Subject: ASSISTANCE URGENTLY NEEDED

Dear Friend,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration, since I cannot see
with you face to face at first.Being the only SON of my father, late
Mr.Tijani Kabbah from SIERRA-LEONE Africa (WA). I am 22 years of age.

My father was limited liability DIAMOND and Gold merchant in FREETOWN
SIERRA-LEONE before his untimely death. After his business trip to Cotonou
Republic Of Benin to negotiate on a GOOD INVESTMENT business he wanted to
invest in Cotonou . A week after he came back from Cotonou , he got an
accident with my mother of which my mother died instantly but my father died
after five days in a private hospital on that faithful afternoon,

I didn´t know that my father was going to leave me after I had lost my
mother, but before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going
to die. He, my father, (MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) disclosed to me
that he deposited sum of 22,000,000,00 US Dollars (TWENTY TWO MILLION
DOLLARS) in a security company here in Cotonou,

That the money was meant for his DIAMOND and Gold company he wanted to
establish in Cotonou. Though, according to my father he deposited the money
in a trunk box but declared it as vital family belongings. He single handed
me the key of the box and the deposit certificate and instructed me to seek
for a reliable and trust worthy business partner for my life time investment
abroad.

Now I have succeeded in locating the security company here in Cotonou which
also confirmed being in possession of the items with most honest and
confidentiality. Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help me lift
this money out from Cotonou to your safe account abroad so that we should
invest it in any meaningful lucrative business in your country because this
is my only hope in life.

I am willing to offer you 25% of the total fund if only you can help me out
of my present predicament. Awaiting anxiously to hear from you so that we
can discuss the modalities of this transaction. I await your immediate
response.

Yours sincerely,
Foday Kabbah.

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