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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)
  • "million united states dollars" (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)
  • "keep it confidential" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: yankara oyola <yankara8@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:51:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From Miss Yankara.


Dear ,

It is my pleasure to write you this mail, and i will like you to keep it confidential for our identity is very important. my morther registered here for a purpose hoping that our dream of leaving africa will through one of this day,s, dear Sir we have gone though your profile and got an interest on you, after finishing our 1 week fasting and god revew to us that you are going to help us in this transfar,and also going to be our foreing patiner
I’am Miss YANKARA the only daughter of MR. AYOLA KARRAF a Former Minister of Transport & Communication Sierra Leone, West Africa. My father was accused of engaging in illicit Diamond mining and illegal possession of some precious minerals {Diamond Gold} at the Kenema District in Sierra Leone and was sentenced to jail term without confirmation and proof, though, it was explained that it is contrary to the Law of Sierra Leone. As soon as my father was arrested my mother flew from the country for safety of her life including myself because she was also threatened to be arrested with my father. Presently I am with the documents of our family belongings . I and my mother are presently here in Ivory Coast where my father deposited the sum of ($18M USD) Eighteen Million united states dollars in one metalic Box with one Box of Gold worth 85Kgs deposited in the PRUDENT FINANCE AND SECURITY COMPANY in Abidjan Ivory Coast, deposited by my late father Mr AYOLA KARRAF since the year
2003, Please our aim of contacting you is for you to use your position and influence to help us receive this fund outside Africa in your country and to invest it in a lucrative business in your country in a very good confidential manner. Please feel free to reach me and my mother via email for more details because we are now in the refugee camp and can’t use refugee general telephone number for this transaction for security reasons of the fund because the fund is the only hope we have in life, as well as linking you to my mother Mrs. Elizabeth AYOLA KARRAF. Our best regards to you and your family, we look forward to hear from you as soon as possible.
Thanks,

Miss YANKARA,





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