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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:
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: BENSON KOFFI <bensonandsonia2007@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: bensonandsonia2007@hotmail.fr
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:20:51 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From Benson


From Benson
Abidjan Cote d'ivoire
West Africa


Dearest One

It is my pleasure to contact you for a Business venture and Partnership which I and my Sister Sonia intend to establish in your country. Though we have not met with you before but we believe, one has to risk confiding in succeed sometimes in life. There is this huge amount of Seven million U.S dollars($7,000,000.00) which our late Father Dr Adama Koffi kept for with a Fiduciary Fund Holder in Abidjan before his Death.

Now we have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security and political reasons.we want you to help us claim and retrieve these fund from the Fiduciary Fund Holders and transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment purposes on the areas you know that will profite us in return:
we am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
1) To provide a bank account into which this money would be transferred to .
(2) To serve as a guardian of this fund since i am 21 years old Boy and my Sister Sonia is 18 years.
(3) To make arrangement for us to come over to your country to further our education and to secure a resident permit in your country

If you can be of an assistance to us we will be pleased to offer to you 20% Of the total fund. we await your soonest response.

Respectfully yours,

Benson and Sonia


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