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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. )
  • "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)
  • "trunk boxes" (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)
  • "urgent assistance" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Jennifer Abend <nic.40.jenn@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <jennieabendnic808@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:09:57 -0400
Subject: From Miss: Jennifer Abend



From Miss: Jennifer AbendAccra, Ghana.
Good day and how are you today together with your family, how are you
today together with your family? I hope fine? Please look not unto
race or religion, because this has been problem facing the world as a
whole. please do Permit me to inform you of my desire of asking you
to be a guardian or foster parent to me and then help me out in what
i am about to tell you. I'm Jennifer N Abend (18years old) from Cote
d'Ivoire, and the only child of Late Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Abend. My
father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Cote d'Ivoire.He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their
outings on a business trip. My mother died when i was a baby. Before
the death of my father on October, 2006 in a private hospital there
in Cote d'Ivoire, he secretly called me by his bed side and told me
that he has the sum of Eight million five hundred and fifthy thousand
United States Dollars USD ($8,550,000) deposited in a security
company in Ghana. He told me that he used my name (Jennifer N Abend)
as the next of Kin to deposit the money. He then strongly advised me
NOT to seek for assistance in the investment of the money from his
lawyer nor any of his friend here but to seek for a foreign partner
from any country of my choice (outside my country,Cote d'Ivoire )
that will assist me in the wise investment of the money.I have since
left the money in the security company, with the view of making use
of it for investment purposes after my educational carrier. But as
you may be already aware by now, my country (Cote d'Ivoire ) is
presently at war caused by political crises. Rebels have already
taken over the whole Northern part of the country and making efforts
towards the capture of the commercial center of the country(Cote
d'Ivoire),I am presently in Ghana,where the money was deposited my late father
and finally i decided to take quick actions and have this money
retrieved out of the country Ghana. I am presently in Ghana now, my
uncles have collected all my fathers properties saying that i am a
female child that i do not have any right in the family.That is why i need your urgent assistance to transfer it out of the
country and I will use it for investment purpose like real estate
management or hotel management Because of this i am honorably seeking
your assistance in the following ways:(1) To be my guardian and then assist me financialy to see that this
money is retrieve from the security company.(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to
further my education and then settle there parmanently.I am willing to offer you, 20 % of the total money as compensation
for your assistance. Please let me know if you feel the percentage i
offered is not ok by you.As soon as i recieve your full assurance and
co-operation, I will then give you the contact information of the
security company, for you to find out the requirement we need to
proceed so that the money can be released.Meanwhile, my father told me that the security company dose not know
the content of the box, he told me that he made them to understand
that the contents of the TWO trunk Boxes contains some family goods
such as art cast.I shall also send my picture to you and shall also need yours too.
Thanks and God bless you.Regards,Miss. Jennifer

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