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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "diplomatic immunity"
• 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)
  • "diplomatic immunity" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: rebecca garang <rebecca_garang1060@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <rebecca7garang@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:42:39 +0300
Subject: REBECCA GARANG



REBECCA GARANGDear Good Morning,I will appreciate your kind response. I am surrounded by scepticism as am unfolding this whole transaction to you due to fear of being betrayed as I intended to get better acquainted with you on phone before doing this . I am under strict surveillance by the Sudan government as you may know and all my in and out going phone calls are systematically monitored. Please what you are about to hear is TOP SECRET!For more informations in relation to what I am telling you I will want you to check on this site :http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4737661.stmThe president Umar al-BASHIR and his cohorts are doing everything possible to dispose all my late husband's properties and I am doing all it takes to safeguard the ones that are within my reach now.Please permit me to go into details. After the death of my husband that culminated to a chaotic atmosphere that resulted to a one-week civil disturbances and ethnic violence in Sudan, I have had several death threat and I must confess to you that life has not been the same like when DeMabior was alive. Just few days ago as I was making arrangements to mark my late husband's first year remembrance this month end, I conducted a search in his secret underground vault right inside the family house which hasn't been accessed since his death, I made some interesting discoveries, bank documents of $9Million dollar deposited in a Swiss bank, documents of some landed properties located in the heart of Ugandan capital Kampala and a cash deposit of $9Million dollar contained in a trunk box registered as family valuables in a Safe Deposit House (Security Company) in Cote d'Ivoir Unfortunately the Swiss account has been shutdown. I will explain more when I call you on phone.I am in contact with the safe deposit company in Cote d'Ivoir and they have confirmd that the deposit is in their custody.As the next of kin to my late husband as declared in the certificate of deposit, I deserves the legal right to benefit the deposit or nominate a TRUSTEE/BENEFICIARY. Please , I am reposing a high level confidence on you believing that you will not let me down. I am making an exceptional OFFER to you to be my nominated trustee/beneficiary of this deposit. If this offer is acceptable by you notify me immediately to enable me forward you with the full contacts of the security company in Cote d' Ivoir and every other necessary informations needed for the release of this deposit. The security company has diplomatic immunity, which will permit them to transport/deliver the box to you to any safe environment. Thank you and God bless you. It is my desire to invest greater part of this money in evangelisation and the propagation of the word of our lord JESUS.Be informed that your reward for this assistance is negotiable Remain blessed in the Lord.Yours in Christ,Mrs. Rebecca Garang.
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