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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:
  • "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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Ms Tamilo Gloria <gloriatamilo19@yahoo.co.id>
Reply-To: gloriatamilo@voila.fr
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:58:22 +0700 (ICT)
Subject: From: Ms Gloria Tamilo.



From   : Ms Gloria  Tamilo.

 
Dear,
 
I got your contact when i was searching for a good honest and reliable person. i prayed over it and decided to reveal to you my problem. I  am Miss Gloria Tamilo  (22 years old)  the only Child  of late Dr and Mrs. Alfred Tamilo. my father was a very wealthy Gold/Diamond dealer in Freetown, the economic capital of Sierra Leone. my father was poisoned to death by his close business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. my mother died 17 years ago.He was also playing the role of a mother to me too.
 
Before the death of my father , in a private hospital in Freetown, he secretly called me by his bed side and told me of a deposit of $5,000,000,00 united state dollars (FIVE MILLION DOLLARS)he concealed in a metallic box and deposited with a finance security company in Abidjan,the economic capital of cote d'Ivoire.He warned me that because of envy that he was poisoned by his close associates. He also advised me to seek for an honest forigner in a country of my choice those associates will not hurt me  as they have succeeded in poisoning him. For your information ,it has been difficult to know who is an honest person to assist me in this transaction,and i decided to make a try on you.
 
I arrived Abidjan,Republic of Cote D'Ivoire,a nearby country since my uncle wants to kill me because of the certificate of deposits as he have suceeded in collecting all my father's property left behind. He and his wife always punish me away and have made life very difficult for me .His wife served me a poisoned rice meal, but for the devine mercy, her daughter secretly whispered to me not to eat the meal because there is poison in the rice. i wasted the meal to the bin only to find two dead rat on the bin the following morning and that made me to run away immediately to abidjan,the economy capital city of ivory coast. And i don't want to stay long here in abidjan since i don't know anybody here and no much money to pay for my hotel bill.
 
Dear, i honourably seek your assistance to hurry up and come down here in abidjan so that i will take you to the finance security company where my late  father deposited the money so that i  will  introduce you and you will help me clear the money and we will go together to a nearby bank and open a new account in your name and transfer the money immediately from the bank to your bank account in your country and together i will enter plane with you and go back to your country with you so that i can continue my education over there and you will help me invest this money in your country. i have agreed to compensate you with 20% of the total money.
 
Thank you as i  expecte your reply to my personal email immediately you receive this email.
 
Yours Faithfully,
Ms Gloria  Tamilo.


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