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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:
  • "million american 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)
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "SMART BANIE" <s.banie001@leonardo.it> (may be fake)
Reply-To: s.banie@lekiki.com
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:06:39 +0000
Subject: Please check You have a Note

Hello

My name is Smart Banie from Cote d'Ivoire. I am 20 years old and a student before now.
Please I would like you to assist me as urgent as you can, my father Fredrick Banie was a wealthy cocoa merchant. My nightmare began early last year after the death of my father when the only brother wanted to kill me to take over my father’s properties. My father was poisoned proved by the result autopsy. I am suspecting my Uncle and my father business associates. They said that my father become rich and richer that he has not been given a proper account of all the tones of cocoa being cultivated by local farmers in some villages. As a result of this, his associates poisoned him.
At his hospital bed, he revealed to me the reasons of his sickness and a deposit he made in a prime Bank here, the money is 5.5 million American Dollars. Which he made me the next of kin, been the only son. He advised me that in case he dies, that I should not stay in this country Cote d'Ivoire because his associates may equally kill me hence my mother had died when I was two years of age of breast cancer. He also instructed that, I should look for a foreign partner who will help me to transfer the money out of this place Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire, Based on this, I had to contact you bearing in mind that you will be humane enough to protect my life. My father finally died on the November 2007 and since then, I am out of school and went into hiding because of my father's associates and only Uncle. All the relevant documents of the deposited in a Prime Bank here by my late father, are with me now.
I am ready to give you 15% of the total money, if you can help me transfer this money into your account as my guardian, for onward investment in your country as advised by my late father before he died.

Please contact me immediately so that I stop further contacts and please remember that urgency and confidentiality of this mail is required. Thanks for your anticipated
co-operation.

Yours Truly
Smart Banie

Notre Dame Residence
Cocody
Abidjan.
01 bp 234 Abidjan 01

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