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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:
  • "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)
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • ginaodinga02@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "gina odinga" <ginaodinga04@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:48:03 +0100
Subject: Message


Dear Sir,

My name is Gina Odinga I am 18 yrs old and from kenya but presently in
Abidjan , the capital of Ivory Coast in West Africa .I am writing you based
on my present condition.
I ran out of my country kenya because of the recent uprising in politics
that led to the death of hundreds of thousands of people including my father
who was a campain manager to an opposition party, my mother was raped by the
hoodloms that killed my father.


My late father before his death was the Finance director of a finance
company and he deposited the trunk box of money totalled $7.5Million in a
security vault company here in Abidjan, Ivory Coast before the crises of the
just ended presidential election, He was killed after 3 days and my mother
was raped and rushed to the hospital where she later died and she also told
me that it was because of the fund that my father was killed, I was lucky
because i was in hostel in school and when the news came to me, I have to
rush home.

After the burial of my parents, I came to this country where the trunk box
containing the money is deposited, I came to this country as a refugee, at
the moment I am in the refugee camp under the care of a pastor of a church
here, he and his wife has been so caring to me and visits me every 2 days.

Please I want you to receive this fund on my behalf so that I can relocate
to your country to continue my education. I am the only one left in my
family as my parents are dead and this fund is the only hope of my life. All
I need from you is to help me to retrieve the box which contains the money
from the security vault company, open a bank account to transfer the fund
and I will come over to your country to start a new life.

Please send a reply for your concern.Please send me email :
ginaodinga02@yahoo.fr

yours sister,
Gina Odinga

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