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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:
  • "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. )
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: alice alfred <alice_1alfred2007@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:10:30 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From Miss Alice


Dearest Duerrst

Thank you very much for your mail response to my proposal to you and i am sorry for not reply your mail due to am little sick . I happy to read your mail with your kind answers and please asking for your kind understanding of the whole truth situation and my present plight to enable you make up your mind and maximum cooperation and effort for us to achieve this golden heritage for our mutual benefit and profitable investment and pray that the Almighty God will comfort you the more, guide and protect you and your family and bless you in aboundantly as you help.

Please it might interest you to know that I maped out 20% for your participation and 5% incase of expenses.

However, the money as I explained to you was deposited by my late father, before his tragic death with a security company here in this country Cote d'Ivoire, in One Trunk Metallic Box in disguise which he declared as containing family Valuable for shipment to his Associate abroad. and according to my late father he only made it for security reasons so that the security company will not know the real content of the box, with his intention for investment abroad. that he used my name his only daughter as the next of kin for the deposit.

Really I will need your assistance to help me to claim the box of the money ( One Trunk Metallic Box) that contained the money from the security company, to approach the security company with you standing as the foreign partner to my late father to process the release and shipment of the box to you there in your country for investment.


Be rest assured that this transaction is 100% risk free to your kind person and with every legal process and will be finalised within the shortest time.

As it stands , I will need the followings from you:-

1: Your full names and current contact address .
2: Your private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication.
3: your kind assurance that you will not betray my trust on your kind person after you receive the money because this is all my only hope for survival as you know I am now an orphan and to treat me as your younger sister.

As soon as I receive this from you, I will submit it to the security company and introduce your kind person to the security company director as the foreign partner to my late father who is the owner of the box so i can send you the full information of the security company and the contact manage for you to contact them for the process of the release and shipment of the box to you there in your country.

Then after you receive the box of the money in your country, i will prepare immediately to come over to your country for better stay.


Alternatively, I will like to know your possibility travelling down to meet me in this country, so that we can together go to the securuity company and process everything to collect the box of the money and transfer it to your account then travel back with you to your country, I suggest this because there is a saying that seeing is believing and it will be an ample opportunity for us to know each other and to make everything fast and safe.


Waiting to hear from you and God bless you in aboundantly as you help

Thanks
Alice





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