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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 u.s 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: Febe Yode <febe_y1985@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 15:39:12 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From: Miss Febe Yode.


From: Miss Febe Yode.
Abidjan Cote D'ivorie.

Good Day,

I am writing this letter with due respect and heart full of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously. I am asking for your assistance, I will be so glad if you can allow and lead me to the right channel towards your assistance to my situation now. I will make my proposal well known if I am given the opportunity. I would like to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you. well, My name is Febe Yode, I was a first year medical student of the university of cocody, Abidjan in Cote d'ivoire, i am the only daughter of late Mr and Mrs Yode.my late father was Colonel Yode and former Director of the Army Engineers in Abidjan and well known as(COLONEL YODE) he was kill by the wicked rebels on 19th September 2002 with other military men and other civilians will killed in Bouake.

After the sudden death of my father, my mother took me so special because I am fatherless. On 28th July 2006, my mother has motor accident in Abidjan with our driver, before the death of my mother on 29th July in a private hospital here in Abidjan. my mother secretly called me on her bedside and told me that my late Father before his sudden death deposited the sum of (US$10.5m) Ten million Five hundred thousand U.S Dollars deposited by my late father in the bank which I am the next of kin.

Meanwhile, I am saddled with the problem of securing a trust worthy foreign personality to help me transfer the money over to his country and into his possession pending my arrival to meet you. Furthermore, you can contact the bank for confirmation and I will issue a letter of authorisation on your name, which will enable the bank to deal with you on my behalf. I am giving you this offers as mentioned with every confidence on your acceptance to assist me or take me as your child and manage the money.

Conclusively, I wish you send me a reply immediately as soon as you receive this proposal, Until then,

Thanks for your kind attention.

Yours sincerely,
Miss Febe Yode


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