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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "the consignment " (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)
  • "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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • gabriele_wagner2001@yahoo.gr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: gabriele wagner <gabriele_wagner2001@yahoo.gr>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 15:49:32 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Hi From Gabriele


Dearest One

From Mis Gabriele Wagner
Rue2421 Abidjan Cote D'ivoire
After much consideration and prayer i have decided to send you this mail because i believe you can be of assistance to me and i believe by faith that God led me to you. I am the only daugther of my father, late Alhaji Musa Ibrahim from south Africa. My father was a wealthy Cocoa and Goldmerchant in Africa before his untimely death.

I didnot know that my father was going to leave me after I had lost my mother. But before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die. He my father, (MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he disclosed to me that he deposited the sum of $18,000,000 US Dollars ( eigtheen million Dollars) in a security company in Abidjan,C&ocirc;te d’Ivoire. That the money was meant for his cocoa business he wanted to invest in Cote D'ivoire. According to my father he deposited the money in a trunk box, but declared it as Ivory, and family belonging. He simple handed me the key of the consignment box and the document covering it which is the certificate of deposit and the agreement bond made with the security company, and instructed me to seek for a life time investment abroad.

Right now i am in Cote D'ivoire and I have succeded in locating the securiry company also confirmed the consignment box with most honest and confidential. I want you to assist me in clearing this fund and transfer it to your country as a beneficiary of the fund, and also use it for an investment purpose.I am honourably seeking for your assistance in the following ways.

(1)To assist me to clear this fund from the security company and transfer it to your country.

2)To serve as the guardian of this fund since I am a younger girl . Now I am siliciting for your assistance to help in lifting this money in your country. Because this is my only hope in life.

Awaiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities of this transaction.
Please if this proposal is acceptable, please do send an email to me through my private email address. Email: gabriele_wagner2001@yahoo.gr


Best regards,

Mis Gabriele Wagner.




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