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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:
  • "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)
  • "million 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: Floral Jimmy <floral_jm012@yahoo.com.au>
Reply-To: floraljm@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:52:04 +1000 (EST)
Subject: PLEASE ASSIST ME TO INVEST IN YOUR COUNTRY.


Dear respected one,

I know that you may be furious about this mail, but am very sorry for coming to you in this way and any inconvenience this mail may cause you, but i belived firmly that through the basis of humanitarian assistance, my plead will treated with favourable attention.

I am writing to you withsincerelity of my heart as i have an interest in knowing you much beter, i am also requesting for your helping hand with the understated business proposal.

I am miss Floral Jimmy,i am a native of Anyi,southeastern part of Ivory Coast. I'm 22 years old, the only daughter of my Late parents Mr & Mrs Stanley Jimmy. I want to ask for your help.I lost my mother at the age of 15 and my father was poisoned to death during his visit to our home town for a family meeting 8 February 2007.

Before the death of my late father on 12 of february 2007,he called me on his bedside and told me that he deposited the sum of US$ 22.4 million four hundred thousand dollars. (Twenty Two Million Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ). in a well know security and finance company here in Ivory Coast of which my name was used as the next of kin.

This fund was packaged and concealed in a metallic trunk box deposited to this security and finance company here in Abidjan by my late father Mr Stanley Jimmy, and registered it as family valuable.

This very fund is still in this security and finance company,But due to the reason behind the death of my parents, I will not wish to stay here again for now, because my late father has ( 3 ) three story buildings in the city of Buoake and a 5 miles of cocoa plantation in our village from where he made his money both as as producer and a produce buyer.

But all has been confiscated by my late fathers' brother.Not only that my late fathers' brother confiscated all my late fathers' properties, but they are threaten to kill me at all cost so that i will not ask for my late fathers' properties.

When i found out that they want to kill me, i ran out of our family house to this First Baptist Church Camp where i ran to hide and save my life from dangers around me.I am now staying with the Pastor of our church who happens to know all about my late father uncles and the family i come from.

According to our tradition when a man is about to give up in his sickness bed, his immidiate brothers are called to be at his bed side and they ussually lock the door until when he gives up the ghost before they can come out to annouce his pass
It was during this period that uncle Micheal broked my late father cupboard and saw the documents of the buildings and the cocoa plantation farm land certificate.

Please, i am asking for your kind assistance to help me received and secured the metallic trunk box that contain the US$ 22.4 million dollars that my late fathers deposited in this Security and Finance Company for me there in your country so that i will relocate there in your Country to start anew life there, continue my education and save my life from dangers around me here in Abidjan.

I am willing to offer you a good 15% of the total fund, after you have successfully received and secured the fund on my behalf there in your Country.

Reply me urgently if you are interested in assisting me,I will give you the full contact of the Security and Finance Company in my next mail as soon as i hear from you, for you to contact them to details you on their mode of operation.

God bless you.
Yours sincerely,
Floral Jimmy.






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