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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • aboabira@seznam.cz (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?us-ascii?Q?aboa=20bira?= <aboabira@seznam.cz>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:56:17 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From: Aboa

From: Aboa Bira
Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire.
Email: aboabira@seznam.cz

Good Day and God bless you as I introduce myself to you with all faith, trust and hope that you will accept this sincere proposal to assist us and not to betray us at the end.
I am 23 Years old boy with my little sister Linda. My father died about 2 years ago in a car accident when he is rushing to the airport to board his flight to Angola for his gold mine business. He was into legal gold minning with other investments, which our Uncles has davastated. But as God may have it, before his death, he called me very close to his ear and told me about the secret deposit of Eight Million Six hundred United State dollars ($8.6 M) which he deposited with a security company here in abidjan Cote D'Ivoire as FAMILY VALUABLES.But the security company here has moved the consignment to their firm's agent in Spain because of the political crisis here. He gave me the prove documents of the deposit and my name as the next of kin to the deposit . He deposited this money in a trunk box as family valuables due to the political problems we are having in our country.
We sincerely need's your help to assist us in claiming out the deposited consignment from their firm's agent in Spain since we are not capable to travel out side the country now to claim out the consignment by ourselves. We are willing to give you 15% of the money after you must have recieved the money from the security vault.
Please e-mail me immidately you read this mail to know your stands, so that I will know whether to look somebody else to assist us since you're the first person I'm contacting about this. Please permit me to ask; CAN YOU HONESTLY HELP US AS YOUR OWN PEOPLE? CAN WE COMPLETELY TRUST YOU? Please, Treat this email confidential and get back to me as soon as possible.

Best Regards,
Aboa Bira.

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