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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:
  • "trunk boxes" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • egojeeff2000@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: ego jeeff <egojeeff2000@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 02:04:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: ALPHA TRUST SECURITY COMPANY IVORY COST.


ALPHA TRUST SECURITY COMPANY IVORY COST.
Attention :
I am contacting you in my position as the principal clerk officer of this security company; I am 56 years of age. In the course of my routine work,I discovered an unclaimed certificate of deposit in a file owned by a foreign depositor with European citizenship. In the Deposit certificate issued to the depositor who is resident in Ivory Cost the contents of the Trunk Boxes deposited with us during the heat of Ivory Cost Civil War indicated jewelries and personal effects. In view of the fact that the period of deposit is about expiring, I now made some efforts to locate the depositor, who was a very successful business entrepreneur in the war ravaged country Ivory Cost in order to know when he would come up to claim these boxes.
Information I gathered upon my inquiry through United Nation umanitarian
organ for refugees in Ivory Cost revealed that he was killed with two of
his brothers by rebel.They were killed while he was trying to organize his business and industries scattered all over the major cities in Ivory Cost Ever since he died no one has come forward to claim these trunk boxes which I later discovered was containing cash totaling US$20 Million Dollars, which he moved into our company when the civil started.
Now that it is established that no one is coming to claim these Boxes,
I need your assistance since you are a foreigner to claim these boxes from my office. It is important we do this urgently because the expiring date within which period the boxes would be claimed according to the Deed of contract of the deposit is approaching. Mean while my company is not aware about this development and I would not want them to know otherwise the discovery I made would no longer be at my advantage but to my company because it would be lodged into my company's
Account.
Regard's
Ego Jeeff.
Reply on this mail address(egojeeff2000@yahoo.com)












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