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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • johnson_2007edward@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Johnson Edward <johnson_2007edward@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: edward2007johnson@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 19:58:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Please our future is in your hands.


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: johnson_2007edward@yahoo.com



- How are you? It’s my pleasure to send you this confidential e-mail; my name is my name is Johnson Edward the son of Mr Patrick Edward From Guinea Bissau in West Africa.I contacted you to know if you can be of help and assist me and my sister over our inheritance deposited for us by my late father who died as a result of poison from his business associates in Abidjan Cote d' Ivoire West Africa.After the death of my father I and my kid sister try to seek asylum to London but I was successful and my sister is still in the refugee camp in Abidjan Cote d' Ivoire.Before the death of my father he deposited the sum of US$12,000 000.00 with a security company. During the deposit he agreed with the security company that his foreign partner will come for the collection of the money which he deposited and declared with them as family valuables in a trunk box.Due to the agreement he made with the Security company I and my kid sister cannot make this claim without presenting a foreigner who will stand and act on our behalf as the foreign partner to my late father. I could have chosen someone in London but they are very greedy . I will not like to do anything with them.This is why he told me before his death to look for a reliable and trust worthy foreigner who will assist me in this regard if anything wrong happens to him.Now that he have been poisoned to death I and my sister are calling for your assistance to help us get this money into your account so that we can have access to the money in your country. Most importantly, during the deposit he did not expose the real content of the box as he deposited and declare it as family valuables. So you will not let any body know the real content of the box as only both of us and my sister knows the real content of the box.Secondly, you will also help us to invest the money in your country while me and ked sister will come over to meet you for business investments which you will advise. In all to be our guardian as we don't have any body now to look after our welfare.Once you get the money into your account you will send some money for us to prepare our travelling documents to meet you in your country, by then my sister would have arrive to meet me in london.To enable you act on our behalf send to me your current telephone and fax numbers, Full name and address, which I will submit to the security company informing them that you are my father's foreign partner and co- beneficiary to this box through my sister.Once I receive your next mail i will give you the contact of the security company for you to make contact with them on our behalf. I will also release the certificate of deposit for you so that you will contact them without any mistake.Please we need urgent attention to this problem as all our hope depends in this money to survive in life.For your kind assistance i and my sister have resolved to give 15% of the total sum for your kind gesture to assist us in this transaction and you can call me on this telephone +44702402471.Please our future is in your hands.Help us and God will bless you in all.Waiting for your quick response Thanks,Johnson Edward

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