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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)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Sanna Garang" <sannagarang11@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:08:15 +0000
Subject: ALL I NEED IS YOUR HELP

FORM:Mrs Sanna Garang .
Abidjan, Ivory Coast West Africa
Sir,
Brief introduction I'm Mrs Sanna Garang the first vice-president of Republic of Sudan, who died in a plan crash on Saturday July 30, 2005. Just after the death of my late husband Dr John Garang of Blessed Memory.
I was busy ransacking his book sheeves, incidentially, I found a key to his underground safe in his family villa. Upon my opening to his undergroud safe, I was surprised to notice among other things 1 big trunk boxes which contained the sum of US$6.5 million .
I contacted my late husband friend who operated a fishing trawlers vessels through noble assistance, I and my family were smuggled out to Abidjan through costal river with the sealed trunk boxes containing the money.
On our arrival, I decided to deposit these boxes in a private security company here in Abidjan for safe custody.
Right now, your cooperation is highly needed to assist me lift these fund out of the security company to abroad for onward transafer.
This is strictly on your advice in areas like real estate and stock markets or any other business you deem viable. Your compensation for this noble assistance is quite negotiable.
Please treat this transaction as confidential for this is the hope of my family's survivals, now that the bread winner is no more every correspondences should be directed to my mail box
for more information and clarification.
Please your assistance is highly needed and your urgent reply.
Thanks and yours sincerely,
Mrs Sanna Garang.

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