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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:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: vicky Doukry <vicky_dou01@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:38:17 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: FROM VICTORIA DOUKRY


>From Victoria Doukry
Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire

Hello dear,

I hope my proposal meets you well and that you will have the true, confidence and understanding to give me this assistance because I am the only daughter of my parents .When I was with my parents in Sierra leone when the war broke out, some rebels entered our house armed with weapons and they told my parents to say their last prayers before they were killed because my father was a business man who later joined politics. My parents begged the rebels not to touch me, so they told me to start to run away before they fired bullets on my parents.

I fainted outside our house and was picked by a man called Michel who later tried to see what happened in our house and on reaching there, my mother was already dead and my father was about to die when he called me and reveal to me of a certain document deposit in our cupboard, I took the document and followed Mr. Michel with my parents in an ambullance to the hospital. Before my father died, he advised me to run immediately to Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire where he deposited the sum of $3.5 million USD with a bank. After my parents were buried, I went to our house to take some belongings, I found that our house was later set on fire by the rebels. Two days later, I came to Abidjan to reside with the UN refugees whee I fell sick many times until now that God has healed me .Now I visited the bank who made me to understand that I should find a foreign partner who will claim this money on my behalf because my late father deposited this money claiming that it belonged to a foreign
business partner but no name was mentioned.

If you can assist me to claim this money, you should send me your name, your bank account details and your private telephone and fax number so that I can forward it to the bank for the transfer ,then I can meet you later in your country to complete my scooling , this money will be invested by you so that you will care for me after deducting 20% for your assistance.

May God bless you as you help for this relief and care.

Thanks.

Victoria Doukry.



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