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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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. )
  • "account in your country or any safer place" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "the consignment " (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)
  • "million 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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • ph_des17@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: philip_desmond1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:09:50 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?From=20Phillip=20Desmond=2E?=

From Phillip Desmond.
Abidjan Cote D' Ivoire
Private Email : ph_des17@yahoo.fr


My Dearest One,

I am Mr Phillip Desmond. from Sierra Leone residing in Abidjan cote d'ivoire.
I am a orphan being that I lost my father a couple of years ago. My father
MR William Desmond. was a serving director of the Cocoa exporting board
until his death . my late father was killed by his business associates
because of his well doing in business Before his death he had a Consignment
here in Cote d'Ivoire containing $12 Million dollars which he distinguished
and deposited with a Security company in their security vault although
declaered as containing family Valuables for security reasons and for onward
investment. I want you to do me a favour to receive this funds to a safe
account in your country or any safer place as the beneficiary.

My reason therefore for contacting you is because I found myself in a situation
that I cannot help than to look for a Foreigner who will help me claim the
consignment my late Father deposited with the security company due the Agreement
he signed with the security company when he deposited the Consignment.

He deposited the consignment to the Beneficiary of his Foreign Partner and
signed an Agreement with the security company that the consignment can only
be delievered to his Foreign Partner'contact address Particulars which he
was to submit to them later because he wanted to invest the money abroad
but as fate had it, he died without supplying the Particulars of his then
Foreign Partner to the security company for the delivery of the consignment.Based
on this, I am obliged to look for a Foreigner whom I will use his particulars
and information and register with the security company company as the Foreign
Partner of my late Father/the beneficiary of the consignment and my investor
and request them to release the consignment to you.

Please you are to send me the following particulars so that i will register
it with the security company as the partner to my late father after which
i will give you the contact of the company and instruct them on how the
consignment could be released to you.My father used my name as the next
of kin when he deposited the consighnment.This includes:

1.Your full contact address.
2.Your phone and fax numbers.
3.Your identity or first page of your international passport.
Your age and occupation.

I have accepted to compensate you with 20% of the total money in the consignment
for your assistance.Please , I am putting all my hope and trust in you,
do not disappoint me or let me down . I want you to put your skill in work
and assist me to retrieve this consignment.Finally, please try and keep
everything about this transaction very confidential and secret for security
reasons and my safety because if the family members of my late fathers knows
of this money, they will take it from me and may even and kill me .I have
all the deposit documents with me
as prooves.

I have plans to do investment in your country, like real estate and industrial
production and I am going to take it as my personal task to assist the
orphans like me and widows . This is my reason for writing to you.If you
are thus and truly disposed to assist me in this regards.
More information about the lifting of this consignment legally follows immediately
after your positive reply.

Have a nice day and God bless you as come to aid.

Your's Sincerely,
Mr Phillip Desmond
Private Email : ph_des17@yahoo.fr

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