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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:
  • "dear beloved," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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 states 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)
  • "await your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: <veraeedd@centrum.cz>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:31:44 +0200
Subject: FROM MS. VERA EDOSAN IN GOOD FAITH.


FROM MS. VERA EDOSAN IN GOOD FAITH.Dear Beloved, Well I know that you will face surprise to have received this message from me, i got your contact through the West Africa chambers of commerce and industry foreign affairs division.  My name is Ms. Vera Edosan the only child daughter of the late Mr Adams Edosan I am 21years my late father was a gold and cocoa dealer based in West Africa region Accra Ghana and Abidjan-cote d? Ivoire, he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips,  I am a Sierra Leonean by nationality before my father died in a private hospital here in Abidjan- cote d? Ivoire, he secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has some sum of money stipulated on  a trunk box  six million five hundred thousand United States Dollars (us$6.500 Million USD) in cash, he has deposited the  trunk box in  one of the leading security company in this country but the contents of the box was declared to the authority of the  security as family valuable property for the safety of the money.  I need you to help me claim the box from the security company I was there myself and the security company director told me that with agreement signed by my late father is that I most present a foreign partner for the claim of the trunk box, I need you to represent me at the security company as my foreign partner and make request for the claim of the box to your country. If this interests you i am willing to offer you 15% from the money USD6.5million for your kind and sincere assistance as I desire to come and finalise my study in your country and also invest the money in real estate business. i await your urgent response to this mail as my foreign partner, my best wishes in advance for your acknowledge of this letter.your`s sincerely,
Ms Vera Edosan.

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