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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:
  • "dearest one," (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)
  • "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: marie jeff <marie_jeff14@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <marie_j_blaise@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:26:39 +0000
Subject: From: Marie and Jeffery Blaise.



From: Marie and Jeffery Blaise.
DANANI REFUGEE CAMP, ABIDJAN,
COTE D' IVOIRE.
WEST AFRICA.

Dearest One,

WITH ALL DUE RESPECT AND SINCERERITY.


My Name is Miss Marie Blaise, the only duagther of the late former Director of finance,Chief PHILLIP BLAISE of Sierra-Leone diamond and mining corporation,west Africa.We must confess our agitation is real, and our words is our bond, in this proposal. Iam 19year old and my brother Jeffery is 15yrs old.

Our late father was the Director of finance, in the Gold and diamond industry in my country,he was brutally murdered by the government forces during the renewed disastrous civil war in my country. before he was murdered, he has deposited some money with a Security Company here in Abidjan ( capital of cote divoire) where I am residing under political asylum with my younger brother jeffery Blaise.

Now the war in our country is over with the help of the ECOMOG soldiers, that was assigned for peace keeping by the UNITED NATIONS, the present government of Sierra Leone has revoked the passport of all officers who served under the former regime and now ask the country to expel such person at the same time freeze their account and confiscate their assets, it is on this note that I am contacting you.
All we needed from you is to furnish us with your full contacts informations:

1) Full Name.2) Home Address.3) Private telephone and Fax number,
for you to assist me transfer the box containing the money from the security company to your country, whereby as soon as you recieve the fund you will arrange for me and jeffery to leave the Refugee Camp here in Abidjan to your country for our proper upbringing and for we to continue our Education under your love and care, and also for a proper investment of the fund which you are going to be the director, and initiator of any blue chip business of your choice, in your country, and you will also become our guardian.

The said amount is (Eight Million Five hundred thounsand Dollars) $8.5 MillionUSD. we are compensating you with 15 % of the total money amount, now all my hope and trust is placed on you to help us to regain our lost happiness, so that once again we can live a happy and normal life. dear we really want to invest this money in your country, were their is stability of Government, political and economic welfare.Honestly we want you to believe that this transaction is real, and a true life situation that we are passing through at this moment of our lives. Please i and my little brother count on you for this assistance.

Our late father Chief PHILLIP BLAISE, before the war which took his life, gave me the (photocopies of the certificate of deposit issued to him by the security company on the day he made the deposit of the trunk box with the Security Company as a legal proof of deposit.

If you wish we will send it to you for you to clarify and be sure it is legitimate,because, we do not expose our self to anybody we see, we believe that you are able to keep this transaction secret for us because this money is the hope of our life, it is important to us. Please write to us immediately after you must have gone through my message feel free and make it urgent. We are also offering you 3 % of the total money, in case of any unforseen expenses that might arise during the course of this transaction.

N.B: Try and negotiate for us some profitable blue chip investment opportunities which is risk free which we can invest with this money when it is transferred to your country, personally I am interested in estate management and hotel business, please advise me. mail us back immediately you receive this message for more explanation, and for us to proceed without delay. And please promise me and my younger brother to be a guardian considering our situation and not to betray us.

Thanks and God bless.

Best regards,
MARIE AND JEFFERY BLAISE
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