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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million us 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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: nena.donald@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:49:08 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Greetings=20From=20=3A=20Nena=20Donald=2E?=

Greetings From : Nena Donald.
Address : Rue 152 Cocody Abidjan
Cote D' Ivoire West Africa.

Hello,
It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration, since I cannot
be able to see you face to face at first. Being the only duagther of my
father, late Mr. Frank Donald from Sierra-Leone Africa (WA) I am 22 years
of age.
My father was the former Director of military inteligence and special acting
General Manager of the Sierra Leone Diamond mining coperation (SLDMC) before
his untimely death after his business trip to abidjan to nagociate on a
good investment business he wanted to invest in abidjan.
A week after he came back from abidjan , he got anaccident 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 my father, (MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he disclosed to me that
he deposited sum of $10,million US Dollars (Ten Million u.s Dollars) in
a security company here in abidjan That the money was meant for his Diamond
and Gold company he wanted to establish in abidjan though, according to
my father he deposited the money in a trunk box but declared it as vital
family belongings.
He single handed me the key 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
here in abidjan also confirmed the items with most honest and confidentiality.
Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help me lift this money out from
abidjan 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 10% of the total fund if only you can help me
out of my present predicament.
Awaiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities
of this transaction. I await your immediate response.
Yours sincerely.
Nena Donald.

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