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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:
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "kandehrose kemoh" <kandehrosekemoh14@fastwebmail.it>
Reply-To: kandeh.rosekemoh17@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:31:44 +0000
Subject: FROM KANDEH AND ROSE KEMOH.


FROM KANDEH AND ROSE KEMOH.
Av 16 Reu 87 ABIDJAN
KORIET CAMP ANGRE.
REPUBLIC OF COTE-D'IVOIRE
PNONE: 00 225 07 40 87 51.

Dear,

I know that this mail will come to as a surprise but please it was borne
out of a desparate need for assistance.

I am kandeh Kemoh the only son of late Mr. Ernest Kemoh from Sierra
Leone.

I got your contact from the ECOWAS Infomation Center in Cote d'Ivoire. My
source of your contact gave me the courage and confidence to rely on you. I
am writting you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance to
transfer the amount of (EIGHT MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS)($
8,500,000,00 US )now in the custody of a BANK here in Abidjan to your
private account .

SOURCE OF THE MONEY; My late father, Mr. Ernest Kemoh a native of mende
district of Sierra Leone, was the general Manager of Sierra Leone Diamond
minning corporation (S.L.D.M.C.)Freetown.
According to my mother, This money was the income that accrued from minning
corporation's over draft and minor sales.

Before the peak of the civil war between the rebels forces of major Paul
Koroma and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping operation that almost
destroyed my country, following the forceful removal from power of the
Civilian Elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels. My father had
already made arrangement for his family;

My mother, my sister rose and myself to be evacuated to Abidjan, Cote
d'Ivoire.
My father deposited the fund for safe custody until after the war when he
will join us.

But During the war in my country, indiscriminate looting of public and
Government properties by the rebel forces was rampant and the sierra Leone
minning co-op. was one of the targets looted and destroyed.My father
including other top Government functionaries were attacked and killed by the
rebels because of his relationship with the civilian Government of Ahmed
Tejan Kabbah.

The news of my father death, and my uncle,s involvement in an air crash
while on a business trip to benin republic caused my mother heartfailure
and other related complications of which she later died in the hospital
After we have spent a lot of money on her.

Now my 16-year-old sister and myself are alone in this strange country
suffering without any care or help;Without any relative, we are now like
refugees and orphans. Before our mother died, she told us that our father
deposited some money which he made from diamond sales and contracts at this
bank here in Ivory Coast and that we should pray and find a trust worthy
foreign business partner who would help us to transfer and invest this money
in profitable business venture overseas.

She told us to do this quickly so that we can leave Ivory Coast and, then
settle down abroad. She gave us the bank document to prove the deposit and
then told us that my father used my name as the beneficiary to the money
in the bank in the event of his death. She told us that this is the reason
why we came to Ivory Coast .

I have gone to the bank to make inquires about this money and I spoke with
the Manager of International remittance who assured me that everything is
intact and promised to help me transfer this money to my foreign partners
bank account as soon as I introduce my partner to them .

If you are willing to assist us, please let us know immediately so that you
will arrange the transfer of the money to your account with the bank.
Our only hope now is in this money our father deposited in the BANK. To
this effect, I humbly solicit your assistance in the followings ways;

To assist me claim this fund from the BANK as a co-beneficiary.;

To transfer this money in your name to your country;

To make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf in
your country with you as the caretaker.

To secure a college for my little Sister and my self in your country to
further our education.And to make arrangement for our travel to your country
after you have transferred this fund. most importantly,The whole documents
issued after deposit is in my custody.

For your assistance, I beg to concede 15% of this money to you while 5% will
be set aside for ancillary expenses that may arise in the course of the
transaction.

I EAGERLY AWAITS YOUR REPLY.
BEST REGARDS
KANDEH AND ROSE.

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