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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)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • gijado203@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mariam gold <mari_74real@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:17:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Thanks and best regards.


Dear,
I am Mariam Gijado from Ivory Coast. I tragically lost my father a couple of month ago in the wakes of the ivoirien political upsurge .My father was a serving director of the Cocoa exporting board until his death .

He was assassinated last january by the rebels on his way from office.

A week before his untimely death, not knowing that he is going to died,he had summon us to his office and made a revelation to us conerning the deposit he had made with one security company here in ivory coast he then gave to me documents he used to deposit the consignment with the security company here.

The fund exactly $10 millon and has been carefully concealed in a trunk box and registered as family valuables and treasure by my father so that nobody may know the real content of the box.

Therefore i want you to assist me and help contact the company where the consignment was deposited. We want you to do me this favour to receive this
box safe in your country or any safer place as the beneficiary .

My future plans is to leave this country so i can come to meet you in your country and i want you to now that if you help me out this i make it kwonw to you that i have 15% of the total amount for you

Please i want you to make it now to me if you con help me out of this so i can send all the document that back cosignment and the contact of the company which cosignment was depoited .

May God help as you have it in mind to help me and i dont want you to discuss this to anybody for security purpose.

Awaiting your urgent reply .And please for security purpose
you can direct your subsequent mail to my private mail
address as given below.

gijado203@yahoo.com

Thanks and best regards.
Mariam Gijado.


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