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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)
  • "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)
  • "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)
  • ",500,000" (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.
  • gloria_johnsonprivate@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Gloria Johnson <gloria_j111@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: gloria_johnsonprivate@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:14:22 -0500 (EST)
Subject: FROM GLORIA JOHNSON: A CRY FOR ASSISTANCE.


FROM GLORIA JOHNSON: A CRY FOR ASSISTANCE.
Dearest one,

I used this means of communications because of time Shortage, so please kindly bear with me. However, permit me to inform you of my desire of going into a profitable business relationship with you.


I am Gloria Johnson. The only child of late Mr and Mrs. Adams Johnson, My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant based in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Cost before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discuss on a business deal.

When my mother died on the 21St October 1996, my father took me so special because I am motherless at the age of 10, before the death of my father on 29Th June 2004 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly called me on his sick bedside and told me that he has a sum of US$ 2,500,000. ( Two million Five Hundred United States Dollars ) that he deposited as family valuables in a Holding Company here in Abidjan the economical capital of Ivory Coast, that he used my name as his only daughter for the next of kin in depositing the Consignment in the Security Company.

He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer the trunk box and use the money in it for investment purpose, (such as real estate management). I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.

(1. To come down to Ivory Coast and assist me to the company to claim the trunk box and transferred direct to your country, so that we can both move back to your country)

(2. To serve as my guardian and also a foreign partner to my late father)

(3. To make arrangement after the trunk box has been transferred for me to come over to your country after. Moreover, I am willing to offer you 30% of the total sum as compensation for your effort / input and 15% in any investment that you will invest for me, as my partner, while 5% of the total sum incase any expenses may occur in this project.

Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within some days if you signify interest to assist me. I will appreciate your early respones.

Please reply me on my private email address: gloria_johnsonprivate@yahoo.fr

Best Regards.
Gloria Johnson.


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