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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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.
  • pmore77@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: palina ojong <pmore77@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:23:12 +0100 (BST)
Subject: FROM MRS PAULINA OJONG HELP


FROM: MRS PAULINA OJONG
ABIDJAN,COTE D'IVOIRE
E-mail: pmore77@yahoo.co.uk

Dear Sir/Madam,

Permit me to use this opportunity to contact you with the hope that you will be of immense help to me. I am Mrs Paulina Morris Ojong, a Sierra-Leonean nationality and wife to the late Dr Takim Ojong who was the personal assistance to the incumbent Sierra-Leonean President but was assassinated by the rebels of the revolutionary united front (RUF) when they attacked the presidential palace.

Upon my husband's brutal assassination, I discovered some deposit certificates .

On my arrival in Abidjan,with the deposit certificates, my son and I have been able to trace his company and establish the existence of this deposit as well as claim ownership of this consignment. The security company official indeed don't know the exact content-of the consignment because it was deposited and declared as family valuables by my husband.

>From our temporal base in Abidjan where we live under security cover through the advice of our close and family friend, I am writing to you to seek for your confidential assistance to transfer this cash worth ($15,000,000 USD)US$15 million into your personal account overseas for investment purposes.

Because of my status here as refugee I will not be able to transfer this money overseas in my name that is why I am contacting you for assistance to enable us move this money to your country and possibly assist us to invested it.I rely on your decision but most importantly I appeal for strict confidentiality on this transaction because of the nature of this business and our family name.

We have agreed to give you 20% of this money as a compensation for your assistance. We have also mapped out 5% for miscellaneous expense you may incurre during the transaction. On the strength of the above we implore you to make a schedule visit to Abidjan for
the following reasons :

1-To enable us to know each another

2-To have a round table discussion on possible investment options.

3-To enable us enter an agreement of trust on the above subject matter.NB:
Please contact me through my son JOHN OJONG on the above numbers.


Hopefully awaiting your considerate positive response to enable us proceed in earnest towards concluding the transfer of this fund.

Best regards,

MRS PAULINA OJONG





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