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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:
  • "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge amount of money" (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.

Fraud email example:

From: "Charles Lilian" <adams_lilian3@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: adams_lilian2@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:02:34 +0200
Subject:

From Charles and Lilian
Abidjan,Cote d'ivoire


Greeting,

I know that this proposal may come to you as a surprise.
I got your contact address from the Internet while I was searching for a partner.

I am Charles Adams the son of late Chief Mike Adams and my sister Lilian.

Our father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan,
the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned
to death by his business associates on one of their outing
to discuss on a business deal abroad.

We are contacting you to seek your good assistance to
transfer and invest the sum of US$9.5M belonging to my
late father which he deposited in a Finace Company.

When our mother died ,in 1998 our father took me and my junior sister special because we are motherless.

Before the death of our father He secretly called us on his beside and told us that he has a sum of $9,500.000
(Nine Million Five Hundred united states dollar) Which he
deposited in a Finace Company on his name.

He also explained to us that it was because of this wealth and some huge amount of money his business associates supposed to balance him from the deal they had that he was poisoned by his business associates,


We are honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.

1) To act as the foreign partner of our father by claiming
this fund from the Finace Company for further transfer and investment to your designated bank account abroad.

2) To serve as the guardian of this since I am a young man
of 21 years and my younger sister just 19 years.

Moreover , we are willing to offer you 10% of the sum as
compensation for effort input after the successful transfer
of this fund to your designated account in your country.

Anticipating to hear from you soon.

Thanks and God Bless.

Best regards
Charles and Lilian Adams.

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