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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:
  • "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)
  • "million 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)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "joyce djourou" <joyce_djourou1@unimail.mn>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:28:57 +0000
Subject: Hello,


Hello,

How are you today? The very moment i saw your profile i was convince within
my heart that i can trust you with all my heart but my only fear now is that
i hope and pray you beleive what i have to tell you.


I am Joyce as you rightly know, i am 19, My mother was an African American
while my father was from the french speaking colony of Cote D' Ivoire, i was
living with my mother not too far from Charleston building, 601 57th Street,
Charleston West Virginia USA. And i attended

Charleston senior High School, 1201 Washington Street E, Charleston, WV. I
lost my mother sometimes ago and after her death i came to meet my father
for the very first time in Cote d' Ivoire, though he was also living in the
state before he relocated back to Cote d' Ivoire to set up a business.

Exactely two months and one week after i came to meet my father with the
help of US consulates he died, he was very sick when i came to meet him.
But before his death there were some document he gave to me and he told me
that everything he worked for in his life time is in the document when i
crosscheck the document i discovered that my late father deposited 10
Million dollars in a security company. my late father deposited the money as
family valuables in a trunk box.

The reason i am telling you is that i am just a girl and there is little or
nothing i could do on my own and again if my late father relative find out
that my late father left that kind of money in my care i don't know what
they might do to me, so i need you to help me contact the security company
and claim the deposited Item for me as my friend and Guandian, and take me
along with you. If you do this for me apart from the love i will also offer
you 20% of the total money for helping me.

Please i requested for your trust and understanding because it might sound
unbeleivable but it is the truth.

Please get back to me as soon as posible.You may contact me in my prtivate
email joycedjourou@live.com


Miss Joyce Djourou.

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