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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:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: pascal fonga <pfonga4@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: pfonga2@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:35:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Cry for help. from: Mr Pascal Fonga




Dear,
 
I am writing you this message to seek for your help. My name is Pascal Fonga, am 16 years old, the son of late Mr Lawrence Fonga. My father was poisoned at a party organised by one of his business associates, while my mother died during operation when she was to give birth to her second child who also died. Before my father died, he called me at his sick bedside and secretly informed me that he deposited the sum of US$2.5m in a bank here, that he used my name as next of kin to deposit the funds, since am the only son. Source of the funds, my late father Mr Lawrence Fonga, was a successful business-man whom before his untimely death in June 2007, was a Cocoa and Diamond Merchant based here in Abidjan, Cote d’lvoire. 
 
My plan was that I should finish my education here first, before I start to plan how to invest the funds in any business venture. But his enemies are planning to kill me, so they could claim this money. Already before my father died, he had warned me to seek for a reliable foreign partner to help me claim and transfer the money overseas. He also handed over to me all the documents he used to deposit the money with the bank here. Based on this, I decided to transfer the funds to overseas immediately and relocate to your country.
 
Please, I humbly seek your assistance in the following ways:
 

To assist me in transferring the funds quietly into your account in your country.
To serve as the guardian of the funds since am still in the university.
To make proper arrangement for me to come to your country and further my education.
Also help me secure a residential permit in your country.
Finally to help me invest the funds in any lucrative business, such as estate investment or any business that is profitable in your country.

With clean mind, I am offering you 20% of the total funds, as compensation for your efforts/input, after the successful transfer of the funds into your nominated account in your country. I believe that this transaction would be concluded within the shortest possible time.
I hope to receiving a favourable reply from you and I will give you more detailed information, how this transaction will be carried out.
 
God bless you.
 
Yours Sincerely
Pascal Fonga


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