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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united states 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 orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: chinazam williams <chinazamwilliams2005@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:06:14 +0100 (CET)
Subject: From ChinazamWilliams And Sister


From ChinazamWilliams and Sister
Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire

Dearest One,

Please I am Mr ChinazamWilliams the only son of late chief John Williams from Sierra Leone. I got your contact from the Ecowas Information Center in Côte d'Ivoire.
My sources of your contact gave me the courage and confidence to rely on you. I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance to transfer our late fathers money which is Ten million United States Dollars($10,000,000.00) now in the custody of a BANK here in Abidjan to your private account pending our arrival to your country.
SOURCE OF THE MONEY
My late father, chief Jude Samson a native of mende district in the Northern province of Sierra Leone, was the general Manager of Sierra Leone mining
co-operation (S.L.M.C.) Freetown. According to my father. This money was the income accrued from Before the peak of the civil war between the rebels
forces of major Paul Koroma and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping operation that almost destroyed my country, following the forceful removal from power of the Civilian Elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the
rebels.
My father had already made arrangement for his family, my mother, my sister and myself to be evacuated to Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire with our personal effects. My father deposited the fund for the safe custody until after the war when he will join us. During the war in my country, and following the
indiscriminate looting of public and Government properties by the rebel forces, the sierra Leone mining co-operation was one of the targets looted and destroyed.
My father including other top Government functionaries were attacked and killed by the rebels in November 1999 because of his relationship with the civilian Government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. As a result of my father death, and with the news of my uncles involvement in air crash in January 2001, dashed our hope of survival. The untimely deaths caused my mothers heart failure and other related complications of which she later died in the hospital After we must have spent a lot of money on her.
Now my sister and myself are alone in this strange country suffering without any care or help. Without any relation, we are now in the refugee camp waiting on the Lord as we are orphans. Our only hope now is in the fund our father deposited in the BANK. To this effect, I humbly solicit your assistance in the followings ways. To assist me claim this fund from the BANK as co-beneficiary. To transfer this money in your name to your country.
To make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country with you as the caretaker.
To secure a college for my sister and my self in your country to further our education. And to make arrangement for our travel to your country after you have transferred this fund. Most importantly. The whole documents issued after deposit is in my custody. For your assistance, I beg to concede 10 % of this money to you for your assistance and on receipt to this mail,We will like to have your Tel/Fax number including your Bank particulars which we will forward to the Bank as our Beneficiary so that you can contact them for the transfer.
Yours sincerely
ChinazamWilliams and Sister





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