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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)
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "utmost confidentiality" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "observe utmost confidentiality" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Smith <johnsonsmith1@yahoo.cn>
Reply-To: johnsonssmith@yahoo.cn
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:00:33 +0800 (CST)
Subject: FROM Dr JOHNSON SMITH


From Dr Johnson Smith,
ABIDJAN
COTE D'IVOIRE.

Dear Respectfull Friend,

I want to transfer to overseas the sum of ($29,500.000.00USD) Twenty Nine
Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars from a Prime Bank in Africa.

I would like to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest
person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account
or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty
a/c can serve as far as it can receive money.

I am Dr Johnson Smith an accountant and personal confidant to Dr.Ravindra F. Shah who died together with his wife Dr Mrs Grace Parikh Shah in a plane crash on the 1st Oct. 2003 on their way to attend wedding in Boston. Mr Ravindra F. Shah, is an American, a physician and industrialist, he died without having any beneficiary to his assets including his account here in Bank Atlantique Cote D'Ivoire which he opened in the year 2000 as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and developement of his company before his untimely death in 2003.The amount involved is ($29,500,000.00 USD)Twenty Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand USD, no other person knows about this account. I am contacting you for us to transfer this funds to your account as the beneficiary.

I want to transfer this money into a safe account abroad, but I don't know any foreigner. I amonly contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here,without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in US Dollars, and the former owner of the a/c Dr Ravindra F. Shah is a foreigner too, and as such the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c. I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you,upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with the inheritance procedures.

At the conclusion of this business, you will begiven 35% of the total
amount,60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might
have incurred during the process of transferring, You should observe utmost
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECRECY in this transaction, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I will require
your assistance to invest my share in your country.
I look forward to your prompt response through this email

Sincerely,
Dr Johnson Smith.


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