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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "can i completely trust you?" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "your humble assistance" (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.
  • anitaagomoh@caramail.com

Fraud email example:

From: anita agomoh <anitaagomoh34@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:51:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Ugent Message From Miss Anita,


FROM MISS ANITA JENNIFER AGOMOH.
ABIDJAN.IVORY COAST.
COTE D'IVOIRE.

My Alternative Email ; anitaagomoh@caramail.com

APPEAL FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE.

Dear Guardian,

Good day to you over there,please permit me to inform you of my desire of going into this business relationship with you.Though this letter may come to you as suprise, since you dont know me personally before, but please kindly open your mind to help me and treat me like your own blood relation, it is by the grace of God that I found your contact recently, because it has been very difficult for me to find a sincere person to entrust on this urgent request transaction and to help me out of my affliction today,

I am MISS ANITA JENNIFER AGOMOH, the only daughter of late Mr. And Mrs.FRANCIS AGOMOH. My father was a very wealth cocoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast, my father died during the political war crisis that going on in my country here in ivory coast(cote d'ivoire)My mother died when I was a baby when she was about to delivers a new baby and since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my father on november 2003 in a private hospital herein Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of twelve Million,Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars. USD($12.500,000) left in one of the private security/finances trust services house here in Abidjan Ivory Coast ,as a family treasures that he used my names her only daughter for the next of kin in depositing of the fund. He also explained to me that he might not survive the situation he was at that present.

However That I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel management.
Sir,I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards again.Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded.

Now permit me to ask these few questions:-

(1)Can you help me for the retrievements of this fund on my behalf in the security custody here and to help me to provide a bank account in which this fund would be transferred into?
(2)Can you stand as a guardian of this fund since I am only 20 years old?
(3)Can you make an arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my Education and to secure a resident permit in your country?
(4) Can you honestly take me as your own and help me?
(5) Can I completely trust you?
(6) What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you after the money is in your account?

Please,Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible so that i can forward the documents to you after we have agreed on the conditions for your assistance. My life is not safe here and i need to be out of here as soon as possible because now that my father is dead and with me only as a female child, firstly the political war crisis are still going on here in my country and secondly my uncles are seeking to kill me so that they can have all my fathers properties. i really don't want to struggle anything with them in terms of properties but my presence will still be disturbing them. thank God they are not aware of this fund in the security company here hence, I want to leave here as soon as you help me to have the consignment cleared from the security company custody here and lodge it into a safe account in your stable country and then send me some amount to enable me prepare to meet you. without your help, i will find it difficult to travel and clear it myself alone
with my little or no experience.

I am waiting for your urgent reply with your contact phone number, then i can also give you the contact of the security company for you to contact them on my behalf as my guardian and the receiver of the consignment to your care.

Hopefully to hear from you ASAP?

Best Regards,

Your respectful one,

Miss Anita Jennifer Agomoh.





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