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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)
  • "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.
  • samirahh1988@yahoo.com
  • samirah1988@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Princess Samirah Usman" <samirah1988@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:10:00 +0200
Subject: I greet you with love.

From: Miss Samirah Usman
Abidjan Cote D' Ivoire.
Email:samirahh1988@yahoo.com or samirah1988@yahoo.com

Dearest,

Good a thing to write you informing you of my great desire to enter into financial business transaction with you, though my proposal for you however is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against your will.I am Miss Samirah Usman 18 years old, the only surviving daughter of my late Mr.& Mrs R.Usman. My late father was a highly reputable busnness tygoon-(in Gold, Diamond and cocoa merchant)who operated in the west Africa region during his days.
It is sad to say that my father encountered his mysterious death during one of his business trips overseas early september 2005.His sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by his own brother in collabration of his weaked colleaques who travelled with him.

Only God knows the truth! .They poisoned him through food and he was quickly flown back home,but before his death on 20TH September 2005 he send his private doctor who was with him at the hospital to fatch me after three days of his hospitalisation, beside his sick bed he told me in confident of having the sum of 3,500,000 US DOLLARS (THREE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND USA DOLLARS) which was well packed inside a sealed container and was deposited with a security company in the same West AFRICA.He also said that the security company does not know the content of the deposited box because he decleared it to the company as family items and gemstone and used my name Samirah Usman to deposit the box as the next of kin. He also explained to me briefly that it was because of his wealth that he was poisoned by his business assocaites, 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 purposes.

After his death and burial they same uncle started making problem with me by trying to take away from me all the landed properties belonging to my late father even treating to kill me. So I decided to ascape from them to the nearby country close to where the deposited the box of money.Now I want you to assist me in clearing this box from the security company and then transfer the fund inside the box into your account overseas as the beneficiary of the fund and my foreign partner where we will use it for investment. I am just an orphan because my mother died when I was 12 years and I am a refugee in a country I don't have family nor friend and I really don't know what to do. I need help from you please. This is because I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result of incessant political crisis in my country SIERRA LEONE and even here in Ivory coast.The death of my Father actually brought sorrow to me.

Dearest one,I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards.
Now permit me to ask these few questions:-

1. Can you honestly help me? I will offer you 20% of the toatal money on reaching to you which is $700.000 US dollars.
2. Can I completely trust you in terms of business with all my heart?
3. Finaly I hope you will treat me like your person and never to betray me?

Please let me know of your interest immediately. So that I will give you more information on what to do, and also send you documents which I recieved from my late father concerning this transaction including my Photo as proof.

Thanks and God Bless you so much while I wait to hear from you.,

Miss Samirah Usman

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