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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:
  • "into your nominated bank account" (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)
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22508837272 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: jacob imenla <jacob_imenla@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:32:41 +0100 (BST)
Subject: FROM MR JACOB IMENLA


Dear Partner,

Sorry for my late response to your mail, i was very ill and i couldn't access my mail box.But now i am ready for you and for us to continue in this transaction.

I thank you for your response to my mail.I will not fail to let you understand that this
transaction is strictly confidential and also bear it in mind that I have contacted you with a sincere mind for us to achieve this golden opportunity which I strongly believe will be of great benefit to us.

I will not hesitate to inform you that my contacting you is God's making and I will appreciate us to work in his glory. I have decided to contact you to be a
party to this great golden opportunity and success for truth to excel between both of us considering that we have not met each other before neither have we seen
but bearing in mind that we will meet sooner immediately you confirm the receipt of this fund into your account.

This fund is not mine neither is it yours but we are blessed for me to have discovered the modality in which we will claim this fund without having any hitch.I have spent my savings as a banker to gather the procedures which we will use to claim this fund as well as laying a solid foundation for this transaction in my bank.I personally as an insider in the bank can not have access to instruct the bank to transfer the fund into
any account,this is why I have contacted you to act as the next of kin to the deceased and the beneficiary of this fund after investigating to the extent of
investigating the deceased family which I discovered that there is no person legible to act as the next of kin to the deceased customer and depositor of the fund.

I have gathered and worked out all the informations and procedures which we will use to claim this fund which I will pass to you upon your advicing me your full support and involvement and assistance in this great transaction.I will be delighted to receive your call immediately you receive this message at 00225 0883 7272 to give you
more details.In the light of this I have contacted you with every sincerity from my heart for us to work as a team to achieve success in this great goal which I strongly
believe will benefit both of us emmencely upon conclusion of this deal.

It will not pleasant to take advantage of this great opportunity to enrich your self alone and forgeting that somebody on the otherside who was feeding you with the relevant informations needed for the success of this deal,but I strongly believe that I have
contacted a straight forward person who is not self minded.

I will be sending you the text of application containing the vital informations of these fund upon your urgent response which will be detailed information instructing the bank for the immediate remittance of these fund into your nominated bank account hitherto.
Finally, I will not fail to inform you that the only risk involved in this deal is my bank knowing that an insider is involved in this deal which I will urge you to keep this deal strictly confidential.

I will be waiting for your urgent response as we work
in God's glory.

Thank you and remain blessed.

FROM MR JACOB IMENLA



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