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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk boxes" (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)
  • "million us 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)
  • "transaction is risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • angelica_kendall@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS ANGELICA KENDALL." <angelica_ken@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: angelica_kendall11@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 05:53:50 +0000
Subject: FROM MRS ANGELICA KENDALL.


MRS ANGELICA KENDALL
ABIDJAN COTE D’IVOIRE
please respond to this mail
Dear,
COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON.I wish to solicit your help in migrating to your country and investing my funds. Briefly, I am a Sierra Leonean National and the wife of late Dr SIMON KENDALL. Until his death, my husband was the General overseer of the Diamond Mine in Kanema Sierra Leone. On April 6 2000 the military forces loyal to the Government of Ahmed TIJAN KABBAH invaded the diamond mine and assassinated my husband, mistaking him for
his brother MIKE KEDALL,who is the deputy to the leader of the revolutionary United Front (RUF ) FODAY SANKOH.
When the news reached me, I hurried gathered some valuables in our family villa and escaped for my dear life in the company of my only son Micheal. Among the valuables was a file that contained details of a deposit my husband made in a security company in Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire. He deposited 25.5 million US dollars contained in 2 trunk boxes in the name of our
son MICHAEL as containing family valuables money he made from the sale of Gold and diamonds during his time as the General overseer.
Now that we are in Abidjan and verified the transaction, we need your assistance to move this funds out of Côte d’Ivoire for investment in your country as we cannot invest here due to its nearness to our country and the war still going on there. We ask you to scout for a viable and lucrative business, so that we can invest wisely. We have it in mind to give your 10% of the total sum (45.5 million US Dollars), and 15% share in any investment we will embark upon if you assist us. We will also set aside 5% of the funds for ancillary expenses which you will make in course of this transaction- fax messages, phone calls, air tickets etc.
This fortune we have revealed to you should remain confidential as it only you who we have told about it. Note that this transaction is risk free.
Please, Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible at:angelica_kendall@yahoo.co.uk
Best regards
MRS ANGELICA KENDALL.

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