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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" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • konanstella2003@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <konanstella7@centrum.cz>
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:27:17 +0200
Subject: From Mrs. Stella S. Konan


From Mrs. Stella S. Konan
Cote d'Ivoire
Abidjan
Email: konanstella2003@yahoo.ca
 Dear, With due respect to your person I wish to ask for your assistance for the retrieving and managment of my inherittance.
I am Mrs.Stella S.Konan from Cote d'Ivoire I lost my husband last two years ago. My husband was a wealthy cocoa farmer and later was appointed as the chairman of cocoa exporting Group of Cote d'Ivoire until his death.
He was assigned to attaind a meeting by the group in France to invite agrecultural investors to the country he was poisioned by his business associates on his return. Before his death he told me that he deposited in a Trunk Box the sum of US$9.5Million which he told them that the content is Cocoa processing equipments for the establishment of his cocoa processing plant in Abidjan.
I want you to do me a favour to retrieve this box to your country or any safer place by contacting the Security Company in Europe as the beneficiary and the foreign partner of my late husband, becuase he deposited the box in favour of his foreign partner which he did not mention any name.I have plans to investment in your country on real estate and industrial production.
This is my reason for writing you. after the transfer of the box to your country I and my only son will be coming to meet you for the investment.
However feel free to tell me what percentage of the money I should offer you for your assistance.
Please if you are willing to assist me , indicate your interest in replying soonest. Alternatively at ( konanstella2003@yahoo.ca )
I am presently in Abidjan .Thanks and best regards .
Mrs. Stella S. Konan.

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