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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:
  • "monrovia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "johannes gmeinder" <mr_johannesg54@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johannessgmeinder@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:56:17 +0100
Subject: FROM JOHANNES GMEINDER

FROM JOHANNES GMEINDER
Abidjan Cote D 'Ivoire
In West Africa

 

Dear,

 

I am writting you this letter with due respect and heart full of tears I need your help, I got your  mail and I played over it before I contacted you to assist me to transfer this money to your bank account at your country.

I am the only Son of late Mr and Mrs GMEINDER. My father was a very rich and wealthy Gold Trader in Monrovia the Capital of republic of Liberia in West Africa.

 

I want to let you know that my late father was poisoned by his  business associates while my mother died when i am little and my father took  me so special because I am his only son before the death of my  late father on  2nd july 2005 in a hospital here in cote d'ivoire, he told me that has the  sum of (Nine Million,Five Hondred Thousand u.s dollars ) which he deposited  in a bank here in Cote D'ivoire. he made this money from the sales of Gold,

 

He also told me that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business patners while on a business trip with them and he instructed me to  look for a foreign partner who will help me transfer this money out of  republic of Cote Divoire and invest it for me, my purpose of contacting you  is for you to help transfer this money to your country before this people  who kill my father will kill me , this people who kill my father are after my life and they want to kill me and collect  this money from me , that is why I'm now hiding my self herein republic of Cote Divoire so that they will not see me.

 

Please I need  your urgent help, Tell me how much percentage you will take in the total  money of the Nine Million, Five Hundred us Dolars to help me in  transfering this money to your bank but you have to assure me that you will  help me fully to transfer the money to your account,

 

l hope you will not betray the trust I have on you because this money is my only hope in this life ,and moreover you will also help me to come over to your country
were I will settel down for my life and invest this money for me.

 

I can assure you there is No regrate in helping me, this money is an inheritance from my late  father, This is my number +22508488145 you will get me.

I Await your reply,

 

Greetings to you and your Family,
Johannes Gmeinder.

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