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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dearest beloved one," (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 state 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)
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "your humble assistance" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • jmariebrya@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "elise jeanne" <marie_brya3@unimail.mn>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:11:15 +0000
Subject: Dearest beloved One,


* Dearest beloved One,

My name is Jeanne Marie Brya, 23years old girl, And the only survival of my
late parents Mr.and Mrs Patrick Brya. My father was a highly reputable
busnness magnet-(a cocoa merchant) who operated in the capital of Ivory
coast during his days. It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in
France during one of his business trips abroad on 12th.November 2005. Though
his sudden death was linked or rather suspected by one of his brother who
accompanied him on that Trip, But God knows the truth!

My mother died when I was just 8 years old, and since then my father took me
soo special. Before the death of my Father on November 12th 2005 he called
the secretary who accompanied him to the hospital and told her that he has
the sum of Fifteen Milion Five Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars.(USD$15.5.000 000) left in a Metalic Trunk box, Which he deposited
in one Prime Security Company here in Abidjan, but the Security Company
didn't know the content as money, because it was registered as family
valuables personal for security reasons. And he made the secretary to
understand that it was because of this wealth that make his Brothers to be
against him,

That i should seek for a foreign partner abroad, who will help me
to retreived that trunk box, and shipped it direct to his or her country,
and also to travel along with him or her because my life is in danger as
soon as his Brothers find out about that money in the Security Compnay, My
dear, i am just 23 years old and a Secondary School Level and really don't
know what to do. This is because i have suffered a lot of set backs, as a
result of incessant political crisis here in Ivory coast. Coupled that i
have been chased out of my Father's House, all because i dont want to tell
his Brothers any thing about my Fathers Wealth which they have plan to take
over from me all because i am still a small girl,

Dearest Beloved, I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this
regards.Your suggestions and ideas will be highly be regarded, I want you
to assist me retreived this trunk box out from the Security Company's
Custody, and shipped it direct to your Country, And as soon as you received
it, You will now make an arrangement for me to come over to your Country in
other to continue my Education and also to invest that money into Bussines
relationship with you,

I will be waiting for your urgent reply and also to know how much you will
like to be your own % after the success in geting the trunk box retreivced
and also deliver to you in your Country, Please dear, if you find this mail
offensive, please ignor it and accept my appology, Thanks once again, and
may God almighty bless you and your Family, kindly get back to me as soon
as you read this message, so that i will send to you all the documents which
was sign by my late Father, on the day he made this deposit, including the
contact of the Security Company, so that you can contact them on how this
trunk box shall be retreived and also be sent direct to you in your Country.



Thanks till i hear from you
Yours Beloved
Jeanne Marie Brya.

Reply in my private mail: jmariebrya@yahoo.ca
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