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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a trustworthy foreign business partner" (the question is not whether they can trust you, but whether you have any reason to trust this person or anyone this person tells you to contact)
  • "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)
  • "million us 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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: helen lamine <mrs.lamine37@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <helen_lamine65fr@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:52:34 +0000
Subject: From Mrs Helen Lamine



From Mrs Helen LamineAbidjan Cote D' Ivoire West AfricaPhone: 0022505270965

Dear Friend,
WITH THE BEST COMPLIMENTS OF THE YEAR,I wish to solicit your help in migrating to your country, my names is Helen Lamine are the wife of Late Dr SIMON LAMINE the former Director of military inteligence and special acting General Manager of the Sieria Leone Diamond mining coperation(SLDMC ).

Before my husband died, he me told me that he deposited 45.5 million US dollars in a 2 trunk boxes in the of my son MICHAEL as containing family valuables money so I am contacting you to seek your good ssistance to assist me release boxes from the Security Company and invest the money belonging to my late husband which is deposited in a Security Company in Abidjan. This money is revenues from solid minirals and dimonds sale which were under my husband possession before the civil war broke out.

Following the brake out of the war, almost all government offices, coperations and parastatals were attacked and vandalized. The SLDMC was loothed and burnt down to ashes, and diamonds worth millions of dollars was stolen by the rebel military forces who attacked my husband office.

Many top government officials and senior army officers were assasinated and my husband was a key target because of his very sensitive military possition and appointment in the SLDMC. Regreatably, my husband was captured and murdered along with half brother in cool blood during a mid-night rebel shoot-out when our official residence in freetown was armbushed by Fordey Sanko the notorious rebel leader.

That we should pray and find a trustworthy foreign business partner who would help us to invest this money in profitable business venture overseas.
I and my son have gone to the Security Company to make inquires about this deposit and we spoke with the Company concerning the deposit that we will come for the boxes once we have a foreign partner.

If you are willing to assist me, please let me know immediately so that I will send you all the documents concerning the deposit. Please note that we can only offer you 25% of the total money as compensation for your noble assistance in accodiance with my husband advise. We are interested in any profitable commercial venture which you consider very good in your country and you would also get a school for my son Michael.

I hoping to hear your urgent response so that I can not look for another foreign partner.
Thank you and may God bless you and your dear family.
Yours sincerely

Mrs Helen Lamine
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