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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:
  • "transfer into your account" (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 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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "inquaries2000@yahoo.co.jp" <inquaries2000@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: ododo_llan@yahoo.com.mx
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:35:31 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Details required

Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire
West Africa .

Honourable One.
I Just Came Across Your E-Mail And I Decided To Reached You Basically
On My Heritage Purposed.
Am [ Miss Ododo Rokia. ]
Reaching You From Cote d 選voire Afrique De Ouest. A 21Years Old Single Girl.
Though I Have Not Met With You Before But I Believe, One Has To Take A Risk
Confiding In Some One Sometimes In Life.

My Main Reason For Contacting You Is That There Is Amount Of [$ 4,400.000]
Four Million Four Hundred Thousand American Dollars Which My Late Father
Kept With a Fiduciary Fund Holder In Abidjan Before His Death.

He Also Made Me Know That The Fund Was Lodged There With My Name As
The Only Beneficiary, Since I Am The Only Daughter He Has.

This Fund Was Kept in This Organisation Because Of the Crisis Here and It痴
Well Safe. My late father was a Successful Business Man.

My late father [ Mr.Laurent Ododo ]
Was The Only Man That Was Authorised In Exporting Crude Oil From Cote D・
Ivoire To Southern American During His Life Time But The Only Problem Is
That He Involved Him Self In Ivorian Politics And True This He Was
Assassinated By Own None Person.

Now I Have Decided To Invest This Money In Your Country Or Anywhere
Safe Enough Outside Cote D棚voire For Security And Political Reasons.

I Will Knead Your Assistant In Retrivement Of This Fund From The
[ Fiduciary Fund Holders ] And Transfer It Into Your Nominated Account
Over There For Investment.
You Can Decide The Area You Want The Fund To Be Invested
[Sir]
1. Can I Trust You To Keep This Fund Safe When It Gets To You?

2. To Make Sure You Take Me Down To Stay With You Immediately
The Fund As Been Transfer Into Your Account Over There.

If You Can Be Of An Assistance To Me I Will Be Pleased To Offer
To You 10% Of The Total Sum.
NB. Please Bear With Me For My English Is Bad. It痴 Because We
Are French Speaking Nation So I Have To Translate French To
English.
I Await Your Soonest Response.

Miss.Rokia Ododo




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