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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "the consignment " (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)
  • "hundred thousand 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: esther bah <estherbah006@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <esther_bah@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:46:05 -0600
Subject: Dear Respectful,




Dear Respectful,















Is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I and my Son,intend to establish in your country.Though I have not met you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.
It is here in Abidjan my late husband before his death deposited this sum of money Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only(USD$9.5M) with a security company in Abidjan as family valuables belonging to his foreign partner,awaiting export,which he wanted to use for politics and School building in our Country before he was assassinated in Bouake.
I and my son have decided to invest this money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside here for security and political reasons.We want you to help us reclaim and receive the consignment in your name from the security company's affiliate outside Cote d'Ivoire through diplomatic means or you come down here in Cote d'Ivoire for us to visit the security company together for the claim in your name to avoid any traces of the funds and to enable you plan for the investment in your Country.
We have carefully choosen you to enlarge me and give me the kind of motivation to grow.Moreover I will like you to be our mentor,to offer us the opportunity to turn our potentials into reality,our dreams into destiny. Clearly then,the above factors have combined as one of the reasons to raise our level of living by trying to have an investment with you and come and establish in your country with this money that is presently in the headquarters of the security and finance company, having seen you as one whose philosophy of life is similar to mine and my son Philip;one whose potential we genuinely believe.
I have plans to 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 have planned for, I will be very glad to follow your advice.

1)Real estate2)The transport industry
3)Textile Industry

I await your urgent and positive response.
Respectfully yours,Mrs.Esther Bah & Philip
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