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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "lilian okoin" <lilianokoin001@mobimail.mn>
Reply-To: lilian_okoin01@yahoo.ca
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:02:29 +0000
Subject: From: Miss Lilian Okoin.


*From: Miss Lilian Okoin.
Add: 7 rue St. Bernard, Gonzac,
Abidjan , REPUBLIC OF COTE D'IVOIRE .

Dear Respectful One,
GREETINGS,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship
with you. I got your contact from the International web site directory. I
prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to what my mind
told me that you are a reputable and trust worthy person I can expose my
ordeal to and do business with. So I must not hesitate to confide in you for
this simple and sincere business.

I am Miss Lilian Okoin, the only Daughter of late Mr and Mrs Raphael Okoin
My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan , the economic
capital of Ivory Coast , before he was poisoned to death by his business
associates on one of their outing to discus on a business deal.

When my mother died on the 6th August 1996, my father took me special
because I am the only child a motherless. Before the death of my father on
30th June 2006 in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly called me
on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of $12.500.000 (Twelve Million,
five hundred thousand dollars) left in a suspense account in a local Bank
here in Abidjan, that he used my name as his only Daughter for the next of
kin in deposit of the fund.

He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth and some huge
amount of money his business associates supposed to balance him from the
deal they had, that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I
should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of my choice
where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose, (such as
real estate management).
Please, I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.
1) I will give you the contact of the Bank where my late father deposited
this money.

2) To serve as my guardian of this since I am a girl of 19 years and I do
not have business experience.

3) To help me come over wherever you are, as soon as the money is
transferred to your account so that I will continue my education and new
life.
Extend my warmest regards to your entire family.
Anticipating hear from you soon.
Thanks and God Bless.
Best regards.
Miss Lilian Okoin *

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