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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:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "stellaadams200686" <stellaadams200686@terra.com.mx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:27:19 -0600
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE


FROM:MISS Stella RAISSA Adams
LOT 0081 COCODY -ABIDJAN
ABIDJAN-IVORY COAST.
WEST AFRICA.


I AM MISS stella RAISSA ADAMS ,24 YEARS OLD,MY FATHER OWNS A LIMITED OF COCOA AND GOLD BUSINESS IN REPUBLIQUE OFLIBERIA. AFTER HIS TRIP TO ABIDJAN COTE DIVIORE TO
NEGOTIATE ON A COCOA AND GOLD BUSINESS HE WANTED TO
INVEST IN ABROAD.ONE WEEK HE CAME BACK FROM HIS TRIP
TO ABIDJAN HE HAD A MOTOR ACCIDENT WITH MY SISTER
WHICH MY SISTER DIED INSTANTLY BUT MY FATHER DIED
AFTER FIVE DAYS IN A PRIVATE HOSPITAL IN MY COUNTRY.
IT WAS LIKE MY FATHER KNEW HE WAS GOING TO DIE MAY HIS
GENTLE SOUL REST IN PREFECT PEACE. HE DISCLOSED TO ME
AND MY MOTHER AND BROTHER MR FRANK THAT HE DEPOSITED THE SUM
OF (US $18,5m)INTO A BANK HERE ABIDJAN IN COTE DIVIORE
THAT THE MONEY WAS MEANT FOR HIS COCOA AND GOLD BUSINESS HE
WANTED TO ESTABLISH IN ABROAD.I AM SOLICITING FOR YOUR HELP TO
TRANSFER THIS MONEY INTO YOUR ACCOUNT IN YOUR COUNTRY FOR
INVESTMENT.PROMISE TO GIVE YOU 25% PERCENT OF THE TOTALL
AMOUNT ,
All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see
this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed
under all legitimate arrangement that will protect you from
any breach of the
law.
Thanks , pls contact me,
Stella raissa Adams

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