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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)
  • "trunk boxes" (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: mallam mustapha <m_mustapha333@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:16:54 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Dear VICTIMNAME, respond asap


Dear VICTIMNAME,
Thank you for your response. I need a your telephone number so that I can discuss with you and explain this transaction in details to you ok. My close family friends and relatives have dealt with us in the past and now i have decided to do this one with a foreigner who will get some reward for assisting me and will not want to take everything for himself or herself.Please assure me of your willingness to assist and your uprightness in this.
The funds in question is deposited in a security company in Europe.All you have to do is to pose as the beneficiary to the consignment.
The funds in question is presently contained in 2 trunk boxes deposited with a security company in Amsterdam,Netherlands but the officials of the security company do not know the real contents of the trunks.They feel that the trunks contain personal effects and we shall keep it so until i advise otherwise. I need your assistance in the sense that you will pose as the beneficiary of the trunks and help us travel to the Netherlands and pick up the trunks.You will keep them safely for us until a time when we will meet with you and share the contents as earlier agreed in my mail to you.Please note that we are putting a lot of trust in you and we hope that you will not do otherwise.We have been duped in the past by close friends and relatives that have given out our information to our government and hence we chose to do this last one with a foreigner.I want you to please call me on my number +23418960448(it is open 7 days a week and 24hours for this transaction) and please
when you call ask me for the password and i will say AUGUST before any conversation.If you do not hear this password,drop the phone and try again later.This is only a security check to make sure you are talking to the right person.We must be very security conscious so as not to jeopardise this transaction.I will also remind you that you keep this transaction very confidential as it involves my family's last hope for survival.Send me a number that i can call and speak with you on.
Mustapha.
N.B:All documents of deposit bear my name as depositor so we will need legal documentation to show that you are beneficiary ok.


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