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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (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: benjamin maxwell <ben_max03@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:10:15 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Thanks and I am urgently waiting from Benjamin.


Dear Sir,

I thank you for your mail, so how are you doing together with your family i hope all is fine, if so thanks be to God.

Please i am sorry to ask you this, can you explain what spam mean for me because i here people talking spam spam but i do not know what it's.

Again i want you to know how my late Father made this money before his dead, my late Father Chife Winfried Maxwell from Sierra- Leone Africa (WA) I am 19 years of age, and My father was limited liability diamond and gold merchant in Freetown Sierra-Leone
before his untimely death.

So he was meants this for his diamond and gold company so he want to establish in abidjan before 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.

Then before his dead he told me that he deposited this money in a trunk box and declared it as vital family belongings i hope you will understand me, and i have the document's which issured the day of deposit which covered the money, and i am going to give you the document's, but before giveing you the document's i will like to know you very well, because my late Father told me that i should be very carfull before giveing anybody the document's.

So now i want you to tell me more abuot yourself and also i will like you to send me your full information's like your house address and telephone number also your international passport so that i will know you very well, and please do not miss understand me because i don't want to go into wrong hand so please try to understand me ok, and as soon as i hear from you then i will send you the document's by then you will know that i am telling you the truth, as i will be wating to hear from you as urgent as possible.

Thanks and God bless.

Best Regard.

Yours Benjamin Maxwell.






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