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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:
  • "transfer into your account" (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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: jenifer kone<jenifer_kone@freenet.de>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:25:59 +0200
Subject: Hello my dear,


Hello my dear,

Compliment of the day, I am Mrs.Jenifer Kone from
sierra-Leone. I picked interest in you after i came across your contact,
I deemed it necessary to disclose this important issue. I lost my
husband during the rebel attacked in my country.

Before his death, he
had an account with a bank here in Cote d’Ivoire, where he made a
deposit of US$10.5 Millions Dollars. This money was for the purchase of
cocoa processing machines and development of another factory,
unfortunately he did not meet his target before his untimely death.

Why
I contacted you, due to the agreement he had with the bank during
deposit, I have been denied total access to the money, the bank Manager
told me precisely that the money was deposited in a suspense fixed
account with a clause attached to it for onward transfer into a foreign
account. That the bank will follow the agreement written and signed by
both (the bank and my husband). I was advised to look for a foreign
account where the money can be transferred before I can have access to
it.

Since security here cannot be guaranteed besides, I have lost my
husband, I hereby ask you to do me a favour by standing as my late
husband’s foreign business partner and the beneficiary of the
money to enable the bank effect the transfer into your account.

I have
plans to invest this money in continuation with the investment vision of
my late husband, but not in this place again rather in your country. I
have the vision of going into real estate and industrial production,
please if you are willing to assist me and my only son Ken, indicate
your interest in replying soonest.

Thanks for your anticipated
co-operation.

Yours,
Jenifer Kone.

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