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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)
  • "any lucrative business in your country" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united states 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)
  • "00,000.00" (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 next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Jessica Laurent." <de_willi1220010@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: imfjohnson23@aol.co.uk
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:07:49 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Miss Jessica Laurent..

Jessica Laurent.
Abidjan Cote D$B!G(BIvoire,

Dearest one,

Compliment of the season. Accept my best wishes It is my pleasure to write to you after several days of fasting and prayers, I am Jessica Laurent. the daughter of late Mr. Laurent Johnson from Kenema district in republic of sierra Leone, my father owns a limited cocoa and gold business in Cote
D$B!G(BIvoire, in West Africa.

After his trip to Abidjan Cote D$B!G(BIvoire early last year to negotiate on a cocoa and gold business he wanted to invest in Abidjan. Weeks after he came back from his trip to Abidjan he had a fatal motor accident with my mother and my younger brother, my brother and my mother died instantly but my
father died after five days in a private hospital here in Kenema, Sierra Leone. Is like my father knew he was going to die (may his gentle soul rest in prefect peace). He disclosed to me that he deposited the sum of (usd $7, 000,000.00) seven million united states dollars into one of the bank in
Cote D$B!G(BIvoire that the money was meant for his cocoa and gold business he wanted to establish in Abidjan.

My father handed me the documents covering the lodgement and instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business partner for my life time investment that is why I decided to contact you, now I have succeeded in locating the bank here in Abidjan and I have concluded with the bank
modalities of transferring the fund to an account abroad.

Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help me provide an account facility where i can transfer the money into so that we can invest it in any lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope in life, I have made up my mind to gratify you with 20% of the total sum for your
anticipated kind assistance.

I am waiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities of this transaction.

Thanks in anticipation of your kind assistance.

Jessica Laurent.




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