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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "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)
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Miss Aminat Kossi <aminat_kossi003@yahoo.cn>
Reply-To: miss_aminat_kossi121@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:43:25 +0800 (CST)
Subject: FROM MISS AMINAT KOSSI


MISS AMINAT KOSSI
Dearest One,

lovely one i am writting this letter with due respect and heart full of tears, since we have not known or met ourselves previously.

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going to business relationship with you. I got your contact from the International web site directory. And i prayed over it and selected your name among other names believing that you are God Fearing person and you will hear the cry of an ORPHAN like me.

I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business which we must build trust before we proceed.

I am Miss Aminat Kossi the only Daughter of late Mr and Mrs Abbas Kossi. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Bouake where he has a Company and also in Abidjan the Economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was Poisoned to death by one of my Uncle who was his business associates on one of their outing for a business in a hotel on 30th June 2007.

While my mother died long ago on the 21st October 1998 in Cocody General Hospital Abidjan, when i was still a kid. My father took me so Special because I am her only Daughter.

Before the death of my father on 30th June 2007 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of $3.500.000 US (Three Million, five hundred thousand dollars) left in a private Security company and the money is inside One Trunk Box Deposited as Family Valuable and Treasure save box here in Abidjan Ivory Coast.

My Dad told me that he used my name as the only Daughter for the next of kin in depositing the save trunk box Family valuable and treasure which the security company did not know the contents as money uptill date and you are the only one I am disclosing about it.

He also Explained to me that it was because of this Wealth and some huge amount of money my Uncle supposed to balance the company from the deal they heard together. That was the reason why my Uncle poisoned his only brother and now has power to inherit my Father's wealth.

My late Father Adviced me to seek for a God fearing foreign person in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment and to further my education. I want to transfer this money to your Account and stay under your care.

Last week, the security company director called my Attention over the truck box. So i want you to come and stand for me as my late Father foreign partner.

I am seeking your assistance in the following ways.


1) To make out time and contact the Security company where my late father deposited the Money.
2) To serve as the guardian of this fund since I am a girl of 24 years and to assure me that I will be save when the money enters your care

3) To stay with you and continue my education while the fund will be invested.

Moreover Sir, I am willing to offer you 40% of the fund as compensation for your effort after the successful transfer of this fund to you.

Anticipating to hear from you soon as possible because i have made up my mind to Move out with the fund to start up my own life before my Uncle and the wife will kill me like they killed my Father. I am expecting your urgent reply as soon as you receive this message. Thanks.


Best Regards
Miss Aminat Kossi.





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