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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:
  • "dear friend" (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)
  • "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)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "KONE IBRAHIM" <kone.duke2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: royalduke2004@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:40:00 +0000
Subject: PLEASE CALL ME

Dear Friend,
My name is Mr. Duke, the first son of the late Mr.KONE Duke who was a cocoa
farmer and a business man in our community .Whiles he was still alife, he
was so in love with estate development and was to organize an estate
development business in Cote d’viore but he could not fulfill his dream
because of his untimely death.
After his burial, his lawyer called me and handed over to me an envelop, in
the envelop was an instruction that he made a deposit sum of $8 million US
dollars with a security company in Ghana west Africa,the money is in a trunk
box that he wanted to use the money to organize the estate development
business that incase something happen to him, I should contact a
professional who knows about the investment so he can use the money to
organize the business or invest the fund in any other business my foreign
parner deem fit to invest the fund.
I contacted the security company to find out if the trunk box was still in
their vault and I was told that it is still there and the instruction was
that I the first son should come with a foreign partner to retrieve the
consignment.
On the certificate of deposit, the box was deposited as family treasure so
the security company does not know that the box contains money rather
contains family treasure. On this ground I am contacting you to help me come
so we can retrieve the consignment from the security company and put the
money into any good investment you deem fit as instructed by my late
father.
I am waiting anxiously to get your reply of this mail so I can fax or mail
to you the certificate of deposit that was given to my late father by the
security company so we can proceed ahead.

Regards,
Mr.Duke.

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