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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:
  • "trunk box" (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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • sarah.keithj@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Sarah Keith" <contacts.mehere@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: sarah.keithj@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:07:56 +0400
Subject: Business offer

Dear Sir,

I am Mrs. Sarah keith from Ivory Coast. I am a widow being that I lost my husband a couple of months ago. My husband was a serving director of the Cocoa exporting board until his death . He was assassinated on December 2005 by the rebels following the political uprising.

Before his death he deposited the sum of $5MUSD (Five Million United States Dollars) in a private security Company which was for the importation of cocoa processing machine.Note, according to my late husband the money is in a trunk box and he did not disclose to the security company the real content of the box he did it to reduce the cost of demurrage fees and for the safety of the fund according to him, he decleared to the security company that the box contains a family valuables.

I want you to do me a favour, to help me invest this fund in a benefitable investment in your country as I do not have any knowledge of investment, that will be after we retreive it from the security company which i also need your help to claim this money from the security company.Have you any plans to do investment in your country? Like real estate and industrial production.
Moreover, the security company have accepted to ship the box containing the money to , Dubai for all Asian countries, To all Europian countries. Please indicate where you want the shipment to be made in your reply this is very important as my son i will apply his visa immediately i receive your respone my son will be in communication with you.

This is my reason for writing to you. Please if you are willing to assist me and my only son Francoise, indicate your interest in replying soonest. E-email : sarah.keithj@yahoo.com

Thanks and best regards .
Mrs. Sarah Keith

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