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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "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)
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "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: Selena Lukes <selena11llukes@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: selena111lukes@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:24:46 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Selena Lukes

Dearest

Permit me to inform you about my desire of going in to business relationship with you, for briefy introduction.

I am miss Selena Lukes the only daugther of Mr&Mrs Lukes , My late father was a very wealthy Cocoa and Gold merchant in Abidjan , the economic capital of Ivory coast, My late father was poisoned to death by his
business associates on one of their outings on a business trip.

Before the sudden death of my late father on January 2007 in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly called me on his sick bed side and told me that he deposited a trunk box "Consignment" that contained the sum of Seventeen Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars.
($17.500,000) in a Security Company and he registered the Consignment as a family Value Not money for security reasons.

Due the the political crisis between the Civilian Government and the Rebels, Many companies,Government Offices and Banks were looted by the Rebels and ordinary individuals because of that , the Security Company transfer all the Consignment in their Storage Custody to their Affiliate Office in
Europe.

Rigth now, the Consignment is currently there waiting to claim. Am contacting you to be my foreign partner who will travel to the Affiliate Office of the Security Company to claim the Consignment there.

All the Certificates that covers the Consignment issued to my late father on the day of depositing the Consignment in the Security Company Storage Custody is here with me which l will forward to you to confirmed my sincerity to you.Before l will forward the Certificate to you, l will know you
very well and trust you 100%.

My late father used my name as the next of kin to deposit the Consignment in the Security Company and all the Certificates bear my name as the next of kin.

Dearest One, Am seeking your assistance to help me claim the Consignment from the Security Company affiliated office in Europe as my late father business foreign partner in overseas.

l really need your assistance in this way :

1) To travel to Europe to claim the Consignment ?

2) What will be your percentage/commission on the total money for your assistance and compensation of any money you spend during the process of travelling to Europe and other expenses.

3)How will l trust you?

4) Which aspect of profitable ventures, Will you invest the money ?

5) Will you accept me and take care of me as your Daugherty ?

l will give you more details with the Contact of the head Office of the Security Company here as l hear from you.

Please could you assured me that you will keep the details of the project very top secret, Without revealing it to your relations,your lawyer and your good friends to avoid them to set their eyes on the money and even think to poison me and you as they did to my late father because of his riches.

l don't think this project will take more than ten days.

Confirm your willingness to help me so we will proceed.

Thanks,

Yours Sincerely,

Selena.






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