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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:
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:56:28 +0900 (JST)
Subject: How Are You My Dear Friend?.

Dear respectiful one

Greetings to you. I thank God that I have come across you and believe you will not turn down my request. My name is Lambert Traore, I am 22 years old. I am from Bouke in Cote D'ivoire, west Africa. I became an orphan last year when my father and my mother were murdered in Bouke in the northen
part of Cote D' Ivoire my home town. I was in school when the rebel new force went on rampage and killed people in the town suspected for supporting the government of Gbagbo. I was taken from the school by a church pastor who pitied my condition and decided to bring me into his household in
abidjan the capital city.

Since then, I have been searching closely on whom to trust and who will help me transfer the sum of $4,300,00.00 United state dollars which my late father deposited in a suspence account in a prime bank here in Abidjan . This fund is deposited to the bank for unward transfer to my late father's
business partner in Europe before they lost contact as a result of the political crises in the country.


However, as I do not know this foreign partner and his contact information and my condition is not safe and conducive here now, I appeal and plead to you in the name of GOD to help me stand as my gurdian and foreign partner to provide an account where the money will be transfered into. Then
after you have received the fund successfully, you will arrange to move me out from here to your country to continue my education while you manage the fund in profitable investment you may wish to.

Dear, do I believe and trust in you that you will not sit and betray me after the fund has been tranferred to your account ?. Assure me confidentially so that I will send across to you the contact information of the bank for your verification and confirmation. Please endeavour to furnish me with
your private telephone number and please you have to maintain secrecy to avoid people having eyebrows on the money when you confirm it in your account.

I wait to hear from you soon,


Yours faithfully,


Lambert Traore,




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