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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: kingsley larkoh <kingsley_larkoh4@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:16:33 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From Kingsley


From Kingsley
Greetings to you,Please permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you,which will be of a mutual benefits between both of us. I am Kingsley,the Son of Late Mr. Alie Larkoh,the former Director of military inteligence and special acting General Manager of the Sierra-Leone Diamond mining co-operation(SLDMC).

I am contacting you to seek your good assistance to transfer and invest the sum of US$10.5m (Ten Million Five hundred thousand United States Dollars)belonging to my late Father which is deposited in a fixe suspence account in a bank here in Abidjan,the capital city of cote'd Ivoire in West Africa.

This money was revenues from solid minerals and diamonds sales which were under my Father's possession before the civil war broke out.Following the break out of the war,almost all government offices,co-operations and parastatals were attacked and vandalized. The SLDMC was looted and burnt down to ashes,and diamonds worth millions of dollars was stolen by the rebels millitary forces who attacked my father's office. Many top government officials and senior army officers were assasinated and my father was a key target because of his very sensitive possition and appointment in the SLDMC.

Regretably,my father was abducted and got his two hands amputated by the brutal R.U.F rebels(Revolutionary United Front)during their mid-night shoot-out in our official residence in freetown,our capital city. Before the death of my father in the hospital,he told me that should incase he did not survived that he deposited some money which he made from diamond sales and contracts in a bank here in cote'd Ivoire and that we should pray and find a trust worthy foreign business partner who would help us to transfer and invest this money in profitable business venture overseas.

He told me to do this quickly so that I can leave cote'd Ivoire with my only sister who is here with me and then settle down abroad. He told me where the bank document to prove the deposit is kept. I have gone to the bank to make inquiries about this money and I spoke with the Director of the International remittance who assured me that everything is intact and promised to help me transfer this money to my father's foreign partners bank account as soon as I provide my father foreign partners contact information for them. However,the Director is very concerned because of our situation here. If you are willing to assist me,please let me know immediately you received this mail so that you will arrange the transfer of the money to your account with the bank. Please note that I can offer you 15% of the total sum after the money has been transfered into your account.

we are interested in any profitable commercial venture which you consider very good in your country.Please for security reason,I humbly beg you to keep this transaction very confidencial. Please there is urgent need for the money to be transferred to your account because of the political crises here in Cote d'Ivoire now.I am hoping to hear your urgent response soonest for more clearification. Thank you and may God richly bless you and your Dear family.
kingsley and Faith Alie




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