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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "trunk box" (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)
  • "trunk boxes" (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)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "urgent assistance" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • anitako880@yahoo.co.jp (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: anita konan <anita-b2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <anitako880@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:11:18 -0600
Subject: From Miss: Anita Veronique Konan



From Miss: Anita Veronique KonanAccra, Ghana. Good day and how are you today together with your family? I hope fine. Please look not unto race or religion, because this has been problem facing the world as a whole. please do Permit me to inform you of my desire of asking you to be a guardian or foster parent to me and then help me out in what i am about to tell you. I'm Anita Veronique Konan (17years old) from Cote d'Ivoire, and the only child of Late Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Konan. My father was a very wealthy cocoa and gold merchant in Cote d'Ivoire.He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. My mother died when i was a baby. Before the death of my father on Sept. 2006 in a private hospital in Cote d'Ivoire, he secretly called me by his bed side and told me that he has the sum of thirteen million seven hundred thousand United States Dollars USD ($13.700,000) deposited in a security company in Accra Ghana. He told me that he used my name (Anita Veronique Konan) as the next of Kin to deposit the money. He then strongly advised me NOT to seek for assistance in the investment of the money from his lawyer nor any of his friend here but to seek for a foreign partner from any country of my choice (outside my country,Cote d'Ivoire ) that will assist me in the wise investment of the money.I have since left the money in the security company, with the view of making use of it for investment purposes after my educational carrier.I am presently in Ghana,where the money is deposited by my late father and finally i decided to take quick actions and have this money retrieved out of the country Ghana. I am presently in taking shelter in a church since my uncles have collected all my fathers properties saying that i am a female child that i do not have any rite in the family. That is why i need your urgent assistance to transfer this money out to your country and I will use it for investment purpose like real estate management or hotel management Because of this i am honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:(1) To be my guardian and then assist me financialy to see that this money is retrieve from the security company.(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and then settle there parmanently. I am willing to offer you, 15% of the total money as compensation for your assistance. Please let me know if you feel the percentage i offered is not ok by you.As soon as i recieve your full assurance and corporation, I will then give you the contact information of the security company, for you to find out the requirement we need to proceed so that the money can be released.Meanwhile, my father told me that the security company dose not know the content of the boxes, he told me that he made them to understand that the contents of the TWO trunk Boxes contains some family goods such as family treasure.Please, i will like you to come down here so that i we will both go to the security company together.I will also like you to think and pray about this very well before replying back to me. Please, as soon as you make up your mind to help me, you can contact me on this email address address:(anitako880@yahoo.co.jp)Regards, Miss. Anita Konan
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