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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:
  • "trunk box" (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: rubeka koffi <rubekakoffi44@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <rubekakoffi@hotmail.fr>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:40:27 +0000
Subject: Dearest One



Dearest One


First I am sorry for intruding into your privacy.
I am Miss Rubeka Koffi, 22years the only daugther of Dr Luke Norio Koffi /CEO of the Sierra-Leone national Gold & Diamond Mining Corporation who was assassinated by unknown gun men on his way to his residential home. However, before my father gave up to the ghost he deposited the sum of FOUR MILLION AND FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLAR (USD$4.5,000.000) in one metallic trunk box into an Abidjan base security company under the coverage of family valuables using my name as the next of kin.

He also made me to understand that his brothers were responsible for his death and instructed me to look for a foreigner who will help me transfer this fund and invest it wisely abroad and to prove it all, six month after my parents death his brothers sold all his properties including our family house and now seeking to kill me too.
Dear, I am honorably seeking for your assistance to help me sign-out the boxes from the security company and transfer this funds to your country possibly through your account if we can reach a compromise because you will stand as the guardian to this funds while I further my education in your country
I am sending this letter from Ivory Coast where I taking refuge after my late Parents were assassinated.
It is my pleasure communicating with you for the first time and believing that it will lead to a better relationship between us, also hope you will not lookdown this trust and confidence I put in you.
I will give you all the information’s why i contact you immediately i get a positive reply from you.
Thanks and God blass.
You’re sincerely
Miss Rubeka Koffi.
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