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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:
  • "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)
  • "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.
  • vanizar_91marculey@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "vanizar_91marculey@yahoo.co.uk" <vanizar_91marculey@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: MRS.VANIZAR.MARCUKEY@vmx20.multikabel.net
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:52:28 +0100
Subject: MRS VANIZAR MARCUKEY

From: Vanizar Marculey
ABIDJAN,COTE D'IVOIRE
Email vanizar_91marculey@yahoo.co.uk

Dearest,
Pls do reply me with the mail above and also send me your
direct mail to reach you. I know that this mail may come
to you as surprise , I am Mrs Vanizar Marculey the wife to
Dr Edward Marculey the former director general of
Sierra-leone Gold and diamond corporation who was
assasinated by the rebels loyal to Foday Sankoh the (R U F)
leader. I managed to escape my country with my son Robert.
It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which
I and my Son (Robert) intend to establish in your country.
Though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has
to risk confiding in succeed sometimes in life. There is this
huge amount of Fifteen million U.S dollars($15,000,000.00) which
my late Husband kept for us with a Fiduciary Fund Holder in
Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire before he was assasinated by the Rebels
in a two Metallic Trunk Boxes.

Now I and my Son have decided to invest these money in your
country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security
and political reasons.We want you to help us claim and retrieve
these boxes from the Fiduciary Fund Holders and
transfer it into your personal account in your country for
investment purposes on these areas:

1). Telecommunication
2). The Transport Industry
3). Five Star Hotel
4). Real Estate
If you can be of an assistance to us we will be
pleased to offer to you 20% Of the total fund. I await
your soonest response.
Respectfully yours,
Mrs Vanizar Marculey.

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