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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:
  • "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22507161975 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Benedict Kone <benedict11kone@yahoo.com.sg>
Reply-To: benedictkone@rocketmail.com
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:26:33 +0800 (CST)
Subject: FROM MISS BENEDICT KONE


FROM MISS BENEDICT KONE
I NEED YOUR HELP.



Please i need your assistance. Read in breif the storylines of me & my family history and treat me as you want other people to treat you. My name is Miss Benedict Kone from Sierra Leone. The only daughter also the only child of my late parents Mr and Mrs kone. I lost my Father MR.WILFRED KONE and my mother MRS FIDELIA KONE on January 09/01/2007. My Father was a serving director of the Cocoa exporting abroad until his death. Both of them were assassinated last January 09/01/2007 by the rebels on their way back home because of tribalism in politics. Before the death of my father, he had a box deposited in a Security Company. The sum of ($20.5M) U.S DOLLARS is in the box, which was for the importation of cocoa processing machine. I want you to do me a favour to receive this box to a safe place in your country or any safer place as my late father's foreign partner. Moreover, i will pay any price you want when the box is successfuly delivered to your country. I need your
urgent assistance because the people that have hand in assasination of my parents are after my life. Please if you are willing to assist me indicate your interest in replying me soonest.
Thanks

Yours Sincerely,
Miss Benedict Kone
+225 07161975




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