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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 orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Helena Kayas <hkadd12@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: hkahdd@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:57:02 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Helena.

Good Day,
I am Helena Kayas, the only daughter of late Mr and Mrs Nelson Kayas. My mother died on the 17th October 1988 when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special because I am motherless. My father was Gold agent in Abidjan Ivory Coast. Before the death of my late father on 20th
February 2006 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of (USD$5.5million) Five million, five hundred thousand united states dollars in fix deposit account in Bank here that he used my name as his only beloved daughter for the next of kin in
depositing the fund.

I humbly seek for your assistance to help me to transfer this money in your account for investment, and to serve as guardian to this fund, as I am still a student, I also want you to make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education.
Please, I urge you to make this transaction confidentiality within your mind for security purposes.

Yours sincerely,
Helena Kayas.




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