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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:
  • "any lucrative business in your country" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "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.

Fraud email example:

From: dj o <daniel_jeniffer_obudu2006@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:33:43 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Daniel & Jeniffer


>From :Daniel & Jeniffer
Abidjan, Cote d'ivoire.

Dearestone,

We are sending you this proposal with deep concerned as to seek for your help out of our present situation.

I'm Daniel Obudu (18) and have an Elder sister Jeniffer (20). We are the children of Late Mr. & Mrs. John A. Obudu.our mother died when i was only six years old of age and my sister was 8 then our father been a caring man took very good care of us till May 5TH 2007 that all our joy turn to sorrow on one of his business trip to Dubai, they got a plane crash which cost his life
with Kenya Airways in Cameroon.

There is this amount of (US $5 .7M) (Five Million Seven Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) which our father deposited in the Bank here in Abidjan-Cote d’Ivoire before his untimely death. our father was a highly reputable business man, he deals in Café and Cocoa seeds. He died on the 5th May 2007 in a plane crash on his way to Dubai.

See the BBCNEWS website of the crash. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6627485.stm
Now we have decided to invest this money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Cote d’Ivoire due to political crisis here in our country. we want you to help us transfer and invest this money in any lucrative business in your country considering our age and not having any experience about investment-especially of the magnitude this will require.

We want immediately the money is transferred to you we will come over to your country to continue our education under your care .If you can be of a sincere assistance to us ,please do
get back to us for more details.

We await your immediate response.

Thanks and God bless you.
Daniel & Jeniffer


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