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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:
  • "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)
  • "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.
  • linjhnson2005@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: johnson linda <lin2006jhnson20@yahoo.com.cn>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:47:21 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Mrs Linda Johnson


Mrs Linda Johnson
Zone 4 Avenue,
Abidjan - Cte d'Ivoire.

Dear,

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I and my Son,intend to establish in your country.It may sound like a hoax, but it is 100% REALITY. I got your contact on the net in my search for a partner abroad.Though I have not met with you before but I believe,one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.

There is this amount of Nine million five hundred U.S dollars($9,500,000.00) which my late Husband Packaged in a trunk box and deposited this money with a Security company here in Abidjan-Cote d'Ivoire for safe keeping before he was assassinated by unknown persons.

My husband Registered this box and deposited it as a family valuables belonging to his business partner Abroad,he did not register the box as cash so that no one will not tamper with it,even as i am writing to you now the security company dont know that the box contains money,it is only me and you know that the box is cash and i want it be kept secret between us untill it is delivered to your country.

Now I and my son decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security and political reasons.We want you to help us stand as my husband foreign business partner to claim the box and ensure that the box was moved from here to your country without anyone knowing its content for investment purposes on these areas Like:

1). Real estate
2). The transport industry
3). Five star hotel

If you can be of an assistance to us we will be pleased to offer to you One Million five-hundred thousand USD As soon as you received the box.

I await your soonest response.All Response to my private email address below for security reasons:linjhnson2005@hotmail.com

Respectfully yours,
Mrs Linda Johnson



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