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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:
  • "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)
  • "million 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)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: <miss_f_b6@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: miss_floral_brightt@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 05:19:45 +0900 (JST)
Subject: PLEASE ASSIST ME TO INVEST IN YOUR COUNTRY. I AWAIT YOUR URGENT REPLY.

Dear Respected one,
May the joy and peace of the lord be with you as you are reading this business proposal.

I am miss Floral Bright, from lemba tribe in zimbabawe.I'm 22 years old, the only daughter late Mr & Mrs Johnson Bright. My late father was an architect, he was also a well known bulding contractor here in this Country Cote d'ivoire, while my late mother was a nursing mildwife when they were
alive.

My parents died on 8th November 2007, on a serious motor accident.Before my late father gave up to a ghost in one of the big hospital here in Cote D'ivore, he called me on his bedside and told me that he deposited the sum of US$ 15.8 million Dollars, in a well know security and finance company
here in Cote d'ivoire of which my name was used as the next of kin.

This fund was packaged and concealed in a metallic trunk box deposited to this security and finance company by my late father Mr Johnson Bright, and he registered it as family valuable.

This very fund is still in this security and finance company,But due to my present condition now as an orphan,because am facing a critical standard of linving, i have decided to invest the fund outside this Country because i am a foriegner here.

Please, i am asking for your kind assistance to help me received and secured the metallic trunk box that contain the US$ 15.8 million dollars for me there in your Country so that i will relocate there to invest it wisely.

I am willing to offer you a good 15% of the total fund, after you have successfully received and secured the fund on my behalf there in your Country.

Reply me urgently if you are interested in assisting me so that I will give you the full contact of the Security and Finance Company in my next for you to contact them to details you on their mode of operation.

God bless you.
Yours sincerely,
Floral Bright.






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