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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:
  • "million 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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: freda jumpa <fredajumpa8@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:49:16 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: NICE TO MET YOU


HAHN TRUST BANK (HTB)
5, rue de plateau 11, bp 09095,
03 Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.

Your attn.

My name is Mrs.Freda Jumpa personal assistant to the accountant with Hahn Trust Bank bank in Cote D'Ivoire. With due respect and regard I wish to seek your urgent assistance and help to transfer the sum of (U.S$3 MILLION ) Three million US dollars from the above mentioned bank to your own bank account for safe keep and investment purposes in the near future. This money belongs to our late customer, (Mr.Robert Rice) who died in a plane crash with his wife and his fund has been lying dormant with our bank without any claim either from his family or next of kin up to date. I am contacting you to present you as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased so that the fund will be released to you as his next of kin. I am confidently assuring you that there will be no risk in this transaction, no loss of money as all necessary arrangements have been perfected to release this fund to you as late Mr.Robert Rice's next of kin, and all necessary informations as regards this fund have
been secured and will be relayed to you as soon as I receive your positive response.

Please be notified that I am still working with the bank and it's only me that have knowledge of this transaction thus I emplore that you treat this proposal very confidential for it's speedy and successful conclution. As soon as this fund is secured into your account I shall meet with you in your country for disbursement according to the sharing ratio stated below. I resolved sharing ratio to be as follows: 25% for you the account owner, 65% for me, while 5% will be set aside for expenses made during the transaction and this includes cost of documents, telephone/fax calls and taxes and the remaining 5% for charity.

Meanwhile for your perusance, here below is the website of the plane crash that took the life of the late account owner Mr.Robert Rice and his wife:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/11/01/iran/main49778.shtml

Please call me as soon as you received this email for detailed informations.

Looking foward to hearing positively from you soonest.
Regards,
Mrs freda Jumpa



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