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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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 orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "CHARLES ANTHONY" <charles_anthony207@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: charlesanthony207@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:01:42 +0000
Subject: FROM CHARLES ANTHONY

FROM CHARLES ANTHONY
LILIAN ANTHONY
ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE
PHONE: +22507848486

Dear,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. We got your contact from a computerize data following my effort searching for a trustworthy person to assist us.

We prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to it's esteeming nature and the recommendations given to us as a reputable and trust worthy person we can do business with and by their recommendations we must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.

I am CHARLES ANTHONY, the only son of late Mr and Mrs MIKE ANTHONY and my sister LILIAN ANTHONY. Our father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discuss on a business deal.

When our mother died on the 21st October 1998,our father took me and my junior sister special because we are motherless. Before the death of our father on 30th June 2006 in a private hospital here in Abidjan.

He secretly called us on his bedside and told us that he has a sum of $20,000.000 (TWENTY Million united states dollar) deposited in a private bank here on his name.

He also explained to us that it was because of this wealth and some huge amount of money his business associates supposed to balance him from the deal they had that he was poisoned by his business associates, that we should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of our choice who can come down and claim this fund from the bank for us for investment purposes
and use it for investment purpose, (such as real estate management).

We are honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.

( 1) To act as the foreign partner of our father by claiming this fund from the bank for further transfer and investment to your designated bank account abroad.

( 2) To serve as the guardian of this since I am a young man of 20 years and my younger sister just 16.

Moreover, we are willing to offer you 15% of the sum as compensation for effort input after the successful transfer of this fund to your designated account in your country overseas.

Anticipating to hear from you soon.

Thanks and God Bless.

Best regards
CHARLES ANTHONY
LILIAN ANTHONY

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