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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:
  • "million 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)
  • "your humble assistance" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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: Stephanie kona <mkona1s@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <miss_skona22@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 08:07:32 +0000
Subject: Hello Dear,



Hello Dear,
I know that this message will come as a suprise to you but after much consideration i decided to contact you,before we proceed, I am Miss Stephanie Kona from Cote d'ivoire.
The reason of my message is because i am not safe here due to my situation and my predicament so i decided to seek for your humble assistance. I have a serious problem which is an injury that lingers in my heart for almost seven months now and i want somebody who is reliable and honest who will advise or give me a suggestion on how to overcome this crisis. My mother is not longer alive here in abidjan as i am writing you and recently My Beloved Father joined his ancestors though the hand of his wicked brother who call himself my uncle but has turn to be a lion over night to me.
How i wish i will see you now in my country and we talk to each other at present. My Late father before his death was a chairman of cocoa dealers here in Bouake Cote d'ivoire,that was when am still a student at the federal college, Abidjan,but i stopped schooling after the death of my father because my uncle decided to poison me just for nothing sake, As am writing you now, all my hope and dream of future was shartered and spread to the sky as i don't know what to do. My father left a big amount of money with the bank US$11.5MILLION DOLLARS, and i don't know about this, it was last year that our farmily lawyer kindly handed over to me the documents covering the deposit, Meanwhile i don't know what actually what to do with this money because of shartered brain and life line, that is why i contacted you for advise or give me suggestion on how i will handle the inheritance and for you to help me come over to your country to continue my education. Please it is a long story that if i start to narrate them now, you will be shedding tears over for me,kindly bear in mind that i need you to help me out of this my bad condition and help transfer this money into your account and assist me come over there for security of my life and the money to start up a new life. Please i need your help, please i will love to hear from you urgently.
Thanks once again and please extend my greeting to your family.
Sweet love fromMiss Stephanie
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