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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 american 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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: ferrnanndez1956@yahoo.it
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 07:05:18 +0100
Subject: Hello Dear


Hello Dear
I am very happy to come in contact with you and, after consulting your
profile, I feel like meeting with you
I am Maria Elena Fernandez a Filipinos and the widow of the late philippien
Finance Minister who died on the 15th of May 2003. I want to confide in
you to go out of Philippines for my fucture investment. Please bear with me
as this world is full of wicked people and internet also but I put my faith
in God as I have no other choice but to take the risk. I inherited from my
late husband the sum of 12.000.000 American dollars (twelve million American
dollars). This money, I hid it in a metallic box and deposited it with a
company of finance and safety here in Philippines.

But do to my childlessness, the brothers of my late husband has taken
everything from me up to the joint bank account with the Equity bank here in
Manila. So, I that the company should remove the box from here to avoid
trace and they used their diplomatic means to send my box out of Philippines
to the head office of their company in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).
This box was deposited as family valuables, This is why I decided to seek
trust worthy person outside Philippines who will help me to withdraw this
trunk box from the company before it's too late and also for me to go out of
Philippine for my future investment. I still have my American Visa that will
expire in 2011. Please I ask you to consider my situation as a widow and
come to my aide today it is very urgent.
Thank you and God bless you
Maria

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