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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)
  • "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)
  • "former president of liberia" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Mary Johnson <mary_johnson20@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: mary_johnson10@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:21:19 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: FROM MISS MARY JOHNSON


Dearest one,
I am Miss Mary Johnson, residence in Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire , I m' 23 years of age and I love some hobbies like football, music, reading navels, watching TV and also outing. I'm the only daughter of late Mr. and Mrs. Lambert Johnson. My father was the special adviser to the former president of Liberia Mr. Charles Taylor. I and my father came down to reside in Abidjan ( Ivory Coast ) when our president went to exile and my father late die of heart attack.

Before his sudden death on 20th February 2005 in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he called me on his bedside and told me about one metallic trunk box containing the sum of $6.5 million US Dollars he deposited with a security company here in Abidjan as family valuable and he used my name as his beloved daughter as the next of kin in depositing the trunk Box. And he advises me that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will invest the money.

I humbly seeking for your assistance, to help me retrieve the box from the security company, transfer it to your country for investment. To serve as the guardian of the money and the investment since I am still a student and to make arrangement for me to come over to reside in your country to further my education as soon as the box is in your guide.


Thanks as you made up your mind to help an orphan like me.Please, I urge you to make this transaction confidentiality within your heart for security purposes.

Yours faithfully
Miss Mary Johnson.


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