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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:
  • "the consignment" (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)
  • "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)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: michel duruan <michel_duru2007@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:10:49 -0800 (PST)
Subject: SECRET AND CONFIDENTIAL PLEASE.


Dear Beloved Friend,

kindly, permit me to inform you of my predicament though I apologise for any inconveniences it might course you but I write you today based on the fact that I 'm being left alone in this part of the world and I must not hesitate to confide in you.

I am Mitchel Duruan, and the only child of late Mr and Mrs Duruan. My father was a very wealthy oil dealer here in Republic of Togo, before he was poisoned by his business associates while I lost my mother five years ago in a motor accident and my father took me so special when he was alive because I am motherless.

Before the death of my father on the 02/03/2003 in a Private British hospital in Accra-Ghana, he secretly called me and told me on his bedside that he has the sum of(USD$15 MILLION) deposited in a trunk box as a diplomatic consignment with my name as the beneficary, in a SECURITY FIRM in Europe. He also made me understand that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business associates while on a business outing with them and he instructed me to look for a foreign partner who will help me transfer this fund out of the SECURITY FIRM and invest it wisely in his own country.

The purpose of writing you this mail is to seek for your approval to front you as the next of kin/partner to my late father, so that the consignment will be transfer to you in your country for a profitable investment before the enemies of my late father will get hold of me as my movement is highly rescrited since his death. I have agreed to compensate you with 25% of the total sum for accepting to assist in receiving the consignment and if we can negotiate and reach to a compromise, I will forward you with the details clarification because you will also assist me to invest my share in a profitable investment there in your country.

Kindly bear in mind that I am counting on you to champion the transaction with me and l hope you will not betray me if the consignment is being deliver to you? Please don't turn me down because I relier on God and you for my future. Kindly respond back to me quickly through this e-mail address.

Anxiously waiting to hear from you soonest,

Long may you reign.

Mitchel Duruan.



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