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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. )
  • "huge deposit" (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)
  • "your country for safe keeping" (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)
  • "hundred thousand us 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)
  • "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: frank kouame <ffkouame01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <kouame_f007@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:45:09 +0000
Subject: From Frank Kouame



From Frank Kouame
Cote D Ivoire
Dear Sir,
I am aware that we have never seen each other before,neither have we exchanged any form of formal contract or correspondence before. I am equally aware that this world is full of dishonest people I am Frank Kouame from Republic of Cote D Ivoire in West Africa,My dad was a cocoa dealer,befor the faithful day he met is death in the hands of the rebel who killed him.My families were captured in Bouaka, on the first day the war started,and my father was assassinated with my mother by the assassinators, my mother dead instantly but my father dead later after two days at the hospital.On that faithful day. my father disclosed to me that he deposited, (the sum of 10,500,000.00 Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) in a Security company in (Abidjan).Presently I am here in bidjan,the capital city of Cote D Ivoire. I am desperately in need to move and re-locate this huge deposit to your country for safe keeping as this is the only wealth remaining for the future survival.Please endavour to email me back for further clarifications over this issue.
Remain blessed ,
Regards
Frank Kouame
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