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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:
  • "the consignment" (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)
  • "can i completely trust you?" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.

Fraud email example:

From: HONFO Rosaline <honforosa1@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:00:42 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: please i need your help for invesment projet


hello

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into
business relationship with you.Though this letter will
be a surprise  to you since you dont know me
personally I got your contacts recent .during my
search for a stranger that can cooperate help me in
this mutual transaction. and I prayed over it and
selected your name among the other names due to its
esteeming nature and the recommations given to me as a
reputable and trust worthy person that I can do
business with and by the recommendation, I must not
hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere
Business.
I am MISS HONFO ROSALINE  , the only daughter of late Mr.
And Mrs HONFO  My father was a very wealth cocoa
merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory
Coast, my father died during the political war crisis
that going on in my country here in ivory coast(cote
d'ivoire)My mother died when I was a baby when she was
about to delivers a new baby and since then my father
took me so special. Before the death of my father on
november 2002 in a private hospital herein Abidjan he
secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he
has the sum of  ($3.5 million) Three million Five hundred thousand united state dollars l  in bank
here in Abidjan Ivory Coast ,as a family treasures
that he used my names her only daughter for the next
of kin in depositing of the fund. He also explained to
me that he might not survive the situation he was at
that present.

However That I should seek for a foreign partner in a
country of my choice where I will transfer this money
and use it for investment purpose such as real estate
management or hotel management.
Sir,I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance
in this regards again.Your suggestions and ideas will
be highly regarded.
Now permit me to ask these few questions:-
(1)Can you help me for the retrievements of this fund
on my behalf in the security custody here to your end?
(2)Can you stand as a guardian of this since fund
since I am only 22 years old?
(3)Can you make an arrangement for me to come over to
your country to further my Education and to secure a
resident permit in your country?
(4) Can you honestly take me as your own and help me?

(5) Can I completely trust you?
(6) What percentage of the total amount in question
will be good for you after the money is in your
account?
Please,Consider this and get back to me as soon as
possible so that i can forward the documents to you
after we have agreed on the conditions for your
assistance. My life is not safe here and i need to be
out of here as soon as possible because now that my
father is dead and with me only as a female child,
firstly the political war crisis are still going on
here in my country and secondly my uncles are seeking
to kill me so that they can have all my fathers
properties. i really don't want to struggle anything
with them in terms of properties but my presence will
still be disturbing them. thank God they are not aware
of this fund in the company here hence, I want to
leave here as soon as you help me to have the
consignment cleared from the security company here and
lodge it into a safe account in your stable country
and then send me some amount to enable me prepare to
meet you. without your help, i will find it difficult
to travel and clear it myself alone with my little or
no experience.
I am waiting for your urgent reply with your contact
phone number so that i can give you the contact of the
security for you to contact them as if you are my
guardians. and in due course I will provides you the
secret code for opening the consignment when you are
ready to come on my behalf.

Thank you so much.

Best Regards,
MISS HONFO ROSALINE



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