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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states 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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Janet Koffi <janetkoffi12@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:23:08 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Can I trust you?


My Dear

Please I do appologise for the embarrasement this my letter may have cause you because we have not known before. I am Miss Janet Vincent Koffi I, m 19 years old now, I was born on the 18th of August 1988 to the family of Vincent Koffi and my father name is Mr Vincent he is a very well known businessman based in Accra Ghana and Abidjan here in Cotèd Ivoire and my mother is late Mrs Hortense Vincent and I am their only child, well when I was stll a kid I went to a private school in Accra Ghana and things were going on well for me and my parents but my mother died on the 21st october 1999 My father took me so dearly because I am motherless and he showered all his love on me and promised me that he will never have another wife because he did not want me for any problem but God knows the best as my father died last year in a private hospital here in Abidjan.
But thank God that before the sudden death of my father here last year in Abidjan he called me secretly to his bed side and told me that he kept a sum of $3.800 000 (Three million eight hundred thousand united states dollars) in a bank here in Abidjan Cote D'ivoire. Meanwhile that he used my name as the next of kin in deposit of the money that I should look for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I would transfer this money and use it to complete my education and to build my future.
I want you to help me transfer this money out from here and immidiately after the transfer I want you to take money from this my money and send to me to prepare my travelling document to come to your country and start a new life as life has made me an orphan here.

Note: You are not going to pay for any document because I am haveing every document covering this money. I am expecting to hear from you as soon as you read this mail.

May Almighty God bless you as you do care for me Amen.
Yours sincerely,
Janet Koffi.


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