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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:
  • "huge deposit" (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 next of kin 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.
  • ernest224@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: "ernest oupau" <eoupau14@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: oernest224@myway.com
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:54:48 -0800
Subject: Re:Thanks !!!!

From:Mr.Ernest Oupau
Abidjan,Cote d'Ivoire.
Tel:0022.....
Email:ernest224@yahoo.fr
Date:05/07/2006.

Hello,

Greetings to your family.

I hope this mail meets you well.I duly apologize
if am interfering on your privacy if this request
is not acceptable to you.First I wish to introduce
myself properly to you.My name is Mr.Ernest Oupau,
an Accountant with a repurtable BANK here in
Abidjan,Cote d'Ivoire.I am the personal financial
adviser to Engr.Morgan K ,a national of your
country,who used to work with an oil servicing
company here in Cote d'Ivoire.

My client,his wife,and their three children were
involved in the ill fated plane crash of the Kenya
Airways Flight which took place at the coasts of
Abidjan in which all passengers on board died.
Since then I have made several inquiries to your
embassy to locate any of my clients extended
relatives but has been unsuccessful. After several
unsuccessful attempts,I decided to trace his last
name over the Internet,to see if I could locate
any member of his family hence I contacted you.

Of particular interest is this huge deposit with
our bank here in,where the deceased has an account
valued at about ($17.5 million).They have issued me
a notice to provide the next of kin or the bank
will declare the account unservisable and thereby
send the funds to the bank treasury.Since I have
been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over
they years now.I will seek your consent to present
you as the next of kin of the deceased since you are
a foreigner,so that the proceeds of this account
valued at($17.5 million)can be paid to you and then
you and I can share the money.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us
see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be
executed under all legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law.If you can
handle this with me,reach me now through this email
account.In your reply mail,give your full names,
address,date of birth,telephone and fax numbers.

Thanking you for your anticipated cooperation.

Your faithfully,

Ernest Oupau.

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