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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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: Pere odonta <pereodonta2@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: pereodonta1@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:42:27 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Information From Pere


From Pere Odonta
Private and Confidential
Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire.


Dear One,

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your country.
Though we have not met with you before but we believe, one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.
There is this amount of Ten Million Dollars (US$10.000.000) which my late father deposited in a Security Company here in Abidjan Capital city of Cote d'Ivoire ,I want to help secure the fund in your Country dueto security and political reasons.
my father was an international Gold and Diamond dealer who operated the
province of Africa and the rest of the world during his days in business.

I want you to help me retreive and receive the money in your Country for
onward joint partnership business and investments in your Country. We
will like to invest part of the money into these three investments in your
Country but, if there is any other business that is better than our
suggestion, we will be very glad to follow your advice.

1). Real estate
2). The transport industry
3). Five star hotel

If you can be of an assistance to us we will be pleased to offer to you
12%
Of the total fund while the balance will be invested by you. I await
your soonest response.

Respectfully yours,

Pere Odonta

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