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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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • sayedsaad07@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: <edwards20012001@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: titiedwards@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:24:50 +0900 (JST)
Subject: FROM TITI

sayedsaad07@gmail.com
Dearest One,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration.I am the only son of my father, (Late Mr. Abraham Edwards from Zulu in the Republic of South Africa) I am 22 years old. My father was a limited liability Diamond and Gold, Cocoa, merchant before his death, precisely a week after his return
from Ivory Coast where he went to negotiate for a Diamond and Gold, Cocoa business. He died as a result of a car accident but before he died, as if he knew He disclosed to me that he deposited the sum of ($11,200,000) Eleven million, two hundred thousand united state dollar in a private security
company in Ivory coast, that the money was meant from the Diamond and Gold, Cocoa business he wanted to establish in Abidjan. Although according to my father he deposited the money in a private security company,But he decleared it as a artcraft,I have arrived in Abidjan (Ivory coast) thank
Almigthy God i have been able to locate the security company and comfirmed the Consignment.Now with most honest and confidentiality i solicite ask for your assistance to retrieve and move this funds into an account in abroad so that we would invest it in any lucrative business which you would
introduce me into over there as this funds is my only inheritance from my belove parent so i would like to invest it wisely.

Meanwhile i am willing to offer you 20% of this total sum for your kind assistance immediately we clearred and move the fund into your account.
Thank you and may Almigthy God bless.

TITI EDWARDS.



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