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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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 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.
  • lovejoann01@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: lovelyn joann <lovejoann01@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:08:13 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From Love Joann


From Miss Love Joann
Abidjan,Cote d` Ivoire
(Former Ivory Coast)
West Africa.
Mail: lovejoann01@yahoo.fr



My Dearest one,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration, since I can not be able to see you face to face at first, please I need your help.
Being the only douather of my father, late Chief Rapheal Joann, from Cote d'Ivoire (I am 21 years of age.

My father was a Cocoa and Gold merchant in Abidjan,Cote d'Ivoire before his untimely death.
After his business trip to Tunisia,to nagociate on a cocoa and gold business he wanted to invest in Tunisia,a week after he came back from Tunisia, he got an accident with my mother of which my mother died instantly but my father died after five days in a private hospital on that faithful afternoon, I didn´t know that my father was going to leave me after I had lost my mother, but before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die.
He disclosed to me that he deposited sum of $12,500,000,00 US Dollars (TWELVE ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLAR) in a security company here in Cote D' Ivoire.

That the money was meant for his cocoa and Gold company he wanted to establish in Tunisia, according to my father he deposited the money in a trunk box but declared it as vital family belongings.
He single handed me the secret code of the box and the deposit certificate and instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business partner for my life time investment abroad.

Now I have succeeded in locating the security company Abidjan,Cote d`Ivoire through my late father lawyer,and also confirmed the items with most honest and confidentiality.

Due to war in my country Cote d'Ivoire, I am now soliciting for your assistance to help me lift this money out from my country Côte d´Ivoire to your safe account abroad so that we should invest it in any meaningful lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope in life.

I am willing to offer you 20% of the total fund if only you can help me out of my present predicament.

I await your immediate response coupled with your direct telephone and fax numbers for easy communications.

Yours sincerely

Miss Love Joann.

NB/Please contact me through my private mail for more details and security reason.(lovejoann01@yahoo.fr







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