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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 - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "the consignment " (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: samira emile <samile00@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: sami01emii@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:17:02 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: PRECIOUS GOLD DUST


Sir/Madam,

My name is Samira Emile, My Late Father was an Interior Minister (Emile Boga Doudou) Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire West Africa. I am contacting you in respect of a business transaction, of a huge kilogramms (800kgs) of gold dust which was deposited in a security Company of which I will love you to make a claim of the gold, I could have done it myself but I am small to take care of such amount of gold here in my country, Due to the political situation in my country for the past seven years now and it is in the same problem that my Father was killed, I want you to present yourself as my late Father's business partner so that you can claim the gold and we both will fly to your country at once and invest in more tangible business as we realize a huge sum of money from the gold after the sale.

I'm assuring you that everything will be taken care of by me since I am in the position to give the necessary information of moving this gold to your country, I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction hence the security company has given me series of reminders to retrieve the consignment from their vault because of the inability to meet up with the daily dummorage. Because of my age (23yrs) and my life situation, I could not meet up with their demand.

Kindly please, reply me this mail if you are interested in the transaction and you know that you can help me meet up with the demand of the security company, then, the metalic box where the gold is locked up would be shipped to you as soon as we contract with the security company.

Thanks for your acceptance in advance.

Yours faithfully,
Miss Samira Emile.









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