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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:
  • "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)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: henry konan <henryko7@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <henry01@sify.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:37:17 +0000
Subject: Urgent From Konan Family



Urgent From Konan Family

I am Mr HENRY and my younger sister BLESSING KONAN of the same parents from Sierre-Leone country, This is after our fasting and prayer period and with due deliberation with myself and my younger sister, We decided to contact you for your assistance in standing as a Gurdian partner/Co-beneficiary to the sum of US$7 Millon (SEVEN Million United States Dollars Only) deposited by our late father MR CHRISTOPHER KONAN in a Bank in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast),before his death.

We lost our parent and our late father MR CHRISTOPHER KONAN made a deposit of money and the amount is USD$7M dollars here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire.
We are presently in Abidjan where the money was been deposited and I have the document backing up the money at the bank for your claims and our late father told us incase if he died that we should look for someone who has a legitimate bank account abroad to help us claim the money as we are young ones.

We have the ID Card issued us from the United Nation here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire on our arrival as refugess and these will serves you as a proof of who we ARE.

We believe you as an advanced person that you will not betray the trust we impose on you at the end of the transfer into your personal bank account.

Please we need you to send to us the followings,1.your full Name.2.Your private phone and fax number3.Your banking information

All this we will submit to the bank for the transfer of the money to your bank account which you are going to send.

Bear in mind that this transaction remains confindential to yourself alone.

Based on this we contacted you for an assistance.

10% of the total sum will be offered to you for your assistance.

Thanks and remaine bless.

Waiting for your urgent reply

Yours sincerely ones.

Henry/Blessing Konan.
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