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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: philip savimbi <philipsfamily1@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:53:19 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: RE : private email address


Dear VICTIMNAME,

Thank you so much for your urgent reply to our mail and your willingness to assist us get this money which our late father deposited in the security company here in Abidjan.
Brother, its is the well of God for me to get you mail adderss after 7 days fasting and pryers which by the help of my paster. he show me how to get a foreign partern from the internet this just how i get your private email adderss.
Before we can proceed towards this transaction, we will like you to assure us that you won't cheat or betray us when you get this money .
I will like to have your direct phone number and your home address and your photo so that i can go and submit it to the security company and introduce you as our late father's foreign busniess partner, after that i will give you the contacts of the security company and more informations of the deposited trunk box, so that you will contact them and ask them their procedures of getting out the box from them.
Please NEVER you allow the security company to know that it is money inside the box as our late father told them that it is family valuables and african art works for his foreign partner.
I will like you to tell me if it will be possible for you to come down to Abidjan so that we can go to the company's office and claim this box together, then we will travel to your country together.
I await your urgent reply .
Best regards,
Philip Savimbi


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