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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:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Boedi Aman <mrs_boedi4@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <boedi_aman105@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 20:39:15 +0200
Subject: From Mrs Boedi Aman & Son.Read and get back to us.



>From Mrs Boedi Aman & Son.

Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire.
West Afrique.

Good Day.

My Name is MRS. BOEDI AMAN a citizen of Sierra-Leone. A widow being that I lost my late husband couple of years ago. When my late husband was alive he was dealing with international REAL ESTATE agency until his death. My late husband CHIEF AMAN C RUBBEN left behind a total sum of ( US$ 21.000.000.00 ) in a bank in Cote D'Ivoire, Which he told me to look for a good foreign partner and invest this money with our only Son. Though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.

My late husband deposited the money in the bank for the purpose of foreign investment on real estate/transport industry with his foreign partner. I have approached the bank and presented to them the entire document my late husband left including his death certificate which also bears my name as the next of kin.

Why I contact you is the pressure from my decease husband family brother's for this wealth has compelled me to leave his village with our only son and travel to Cote d’Ivoire wear the money is deposited, for the fact that I don't want my late husband family brother's to be aware of this transaction because of the amount involve and for the future life of our only Son.

I want to follow the instruction of my late husband to invest the money with our only son in your country, I will suggest that you invest part of the money into these three investments in your Country but, if there is any other business that is better than what I am suggesting, I will be very glad to follow your advice.

1). Real estate
2). Transport industry
3). Hotel

I humbly request you to participate in this transaction and also give me professional directives by –
1.) Providing the bank account where the money will be transferred.
2.) Assisting me and my son to invest this money in your country.

If you can be of an assistance to us we will be pleased to offer to you 10% of the total fund while the balance will be invested by you. I await your soonest response. May God guide your heart as you respond.

Respectfully yours.
Mrs Boedi Aman & Son.
Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire.
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