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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)
  • "cotonou" (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_jeff054@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <mariej00225@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 12:44:52 +0000
Subject: From: Marie and Jeffery Blaise.



From: Marie and Jeffery Blaise.
STAR 9, DEUX PLATEAUX, rue de jardin, Cocody, ABIDJAN,
COTE D' IVOIRE.
WEST AFRICA.
04 / 08 / 2007.

Dearest One,

IN GOOD FAITH AND SINCERERITY.


We are writing you with all sincererity and truth that our plea to you is a true life situation that i and my younger brother are passing through at this moment of our lives, we want to trust and believe in you that you are going to help us to regain our lost happiness in life so that once again we can live a fufilled life.


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

Our late father was the Director of finance, in the Gold and diamond industry in our country,
he lost his life among many passengers on board the ill faithed December 25th 2003 plane crash that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, after taking off from Cotonou International Airport, the cormecial CAPITAL CITY OF BENIN, West Africa, killing one hundred and eleven ( 111) passengers onboard including our late father and other crew members onboard, (View this site as a proof and for you to see details of the fatal crash that killed our father.
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html

When our late father was still alive, he once told us that he has deposited some money on our behalf, for us to continue our Education in the U.K, precisely, OXFORD UNIVERSITY, LONDON, England. as that was his long time ambition for us, to be highly educated in life, he also made us to know that because of our ages then, he has deposited the money properly stashed in a metallic trunk box and deposited with a Security Company here in Abidjan ( capital of COTE D' IVOIRE) where i and my younger brother are now at an Orphanage home, because we lost our mother also in the fatal crash.we have located the Security Company, and they are ready to release the trunk box to us, but we need you as foriegner to help us retrieve the trunk box from the Security Company because we dont know where to start from now and what to do with such huge money here in Africa, because of our safety and security of the money.

Dear it is on this note that we are contacting you to help us to contact the Security Company on the release and delivery of the trunk box to you in your country, at a given address of yours, so that as soon as the security company releases and delivers the trunk box to you, we would come over your country to meet with you so that we can still continue our Education, under your guardiance, and care while you assist us in the investment of the money in a profitable business venture of your choice, in your country.
All we needed from you is to furnish us with your full contacts informations:

1) Full Name.2) Home Address, City, Country.3) Private telephone and Fax number,
4) Occupation, and Sex.
This informations is highly needed by us so that you can help us to make the claim of the trunk box, by contacing the company so that as soon as you recieve the fund you will arrange for me and jeffery to leave the Orphanage home here in Abidjan to your country for our proper upbringing under your love, for us to take you as a parents, so that once again we can have a sense of parental upbringing, as part of your family.

The said amount is (Eight Million Five hundred thounsand Dollars) $8.5 MillionUSD. we are compensating you with 25% 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 fuffilled 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 as a 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 fatal crash that cost the lives of our parents, 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 proof and reciept for making the 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 lives, it is very 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 5% 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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