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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:
  • "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. )
  • "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)
  • "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: <amedyz20024@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:37:28 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Hello my dear

Hello my dear

Please excuse me for all the inconveniences my mail could cause you. Please even if we never knew before, I believe firmly that on the basis of the right of humanitarian assistance that a real confidence can arise from our communication and also a real partnership between us.

I am Medine Zachi, the legitimate daughter of the Director of cocoa export here murdered by the rebel$B!G(Bs here because of the political crisis going on here since four years ago.
My father had deposited a consignment with a security company here containing the sum of $9 Million USD (Nine million dollars USD) to allow him to conceive a project of investment at the end of his mandate here.

Regrettably the fate decided on it otherwise. Today my major concern is to move out this sum outside here. Given that I am the only child and I have seriously suffered from the riggings and the harassments on behalf of the political opponents of my Father.

It is in this prospect that I contact you to please help me to move this heritage from the security company to your country.
I would like to count on your human, virtuous and professional qualities.
I look forward to receive your urgent responds.

Thanks for your sincerity.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Medine Zachi
Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire
West Africa.





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