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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:
  • "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "monrovia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Calvin Chetam" <calvinchetam42@msn.com>
Reply-To: calvinchetam@msn.com
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:50:59 +0000
Subject: From Calvin Chetam

From Mr. Calvin Chetam
Abidjan Republic of Cote d’Ivoire. West Africa


Please permit me to inform you of my desire to go into a business
relationship with you. I got your name and contact from your country
directory. Please I need a trust-worthy person who will help me transfer
this money. I am Calvin Chetam, the only son of late Mr. and Mrs. Chim
Chetam. My father was a very wealthy Gold Merchant in Monrovia the Gold
Capital of Republic of Liberia in West Africa. His business associates
poisoned him, while my mother died when I was little. My father took me so
special because I am his only son.

Before the death of my father on 14th December 2005 in a hospital here in
Cote d'Ivoire, he secretly called me and told me that he has the sum of ($15
MILLION FIFTEEN MILLION U.S DOLLARS) which he deposited in a bank here in
Cote d’Ivoire. He also made me understand that it was because of this money
he was poisoned by his business associates while on a business trip with
them and he instructed me to look for a foreign partner who will help me
transfer this money out of Cote d’Ivoire and invest it for me, my purpose of
contacting you is for you to help transfer this money to your country before
these people who killed my father will kill me too.

I'm now hiding in a local place here and I will compensate you with 20% of
this money if you help me to transfer the money to your account I hope you
will not betray the trust I have in you because this money is my only hope
in this life and you will also help me to come over to your country to
continue my education while you will invest my own share of the money for
me. I can assure you there is No Risk involved as the money is an
inheritance from my late father.

I am waiting to hear from you,

Calvin Chetam

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