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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 box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • edwina.rogers1@centrum.cz

Fraud email example:

From: edwina rogers <edwina_rog@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 02:17:02 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FROM Edwina Rogers.


FROM Edwina Rogers.
Email:edwina.rogers1@centrum.cz
Abidjan, IvoryCoast.

Dear VICTIMNAME,



Warm greetings to you and your family in the name of our lord Jesus Christ. I am Edwina
Rogers the only daughter of late Mr and Mrs Edwin Rogers. My father was a very wealthy
Rubber plantation merchant and the managing director of Agro Rogers rubber plantation
farm in Abidjan; the economic capital of Ivory Coast, my father was poisoned to death by
his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip.



My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special. Before the
death of my father on November 2005 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly
called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Ten million, five hundred
thousand United State Dollars.USD($10.500,000) in a trunk box consignment deposited in
safe Security company here in Abidjan,that he decleared and registered this consignment
to the company as containg family valuable for security reason.



He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his
business associates. That I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice
who will stand as the foreign beneficiary for the release and shipment of the trunk box.
Now, I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following way.


(1) To assist me secure this consignment and To make arrangement for me to come over to
your country to further my education and to secure resident permit in your country after
the shipment and evacuation of the cosnignment.

I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/input.
Hope to hear from you soon and May God bless you and preserve our friendship in good
faith.
Best regards
Edwina Rogers

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