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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. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "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 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)
  • ",000,000" (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: Adolphfus Aden <adolphfusaden01@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:29:41 +0100 (CET)
Subject: From Adolphfus Aden


confidential & needed)
From Adolphfus Aden
RUE: 521 Cocody Abidjan
Cote D' Ivoire West Africa.

Hello dear,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration, since I cannot be
able to see you face to face at first. Being the only son of my father, late
Chife Paulson Aden from Sierra- Leone Africa (WA) I am 24 years of age.
My father was limited liability Diamond and Gold merchant in Freetown
Sierra-Leone before his untimely death. After his business trip to abidjan to
nagociate on a Good Investment business he wanted to invest in abidjan.


A week after he came back from abidjan , he got an accident with my
mother of which my mother died instantly but my father died after five days
in a private hospital on that faithful afternoon, I didn't know that my father
was going to leave me after I had lost my mother, but before he gave up
the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die. Hi my father, (MAY
HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he disclosed to me that he deposited
sum of ($25,000,000,00 Million Dollars) in a security company here in
abidjan That the money was meant for his Diamond and Gold company he
wanted to establish in abidjan though, according to my father he deposited
the money in a trunk box but declared it as vital family belongings.

He single handed me the key of the box and the deposit certificate and
instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business partner for
my life time investment abroad. Now I have succeeded in locating the
security company here in abidjan also confirmed the items with most
honest and confidentiality. Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help
me lift this money out from abidjan to your safe account abroad so that we
should invest it in any meaningful lucrative business in your country
because this is my only hope in life.I am willing to offer you 15% of the
total fund if only you can help me out of my present predicament. Awaiting
anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities of this
transaction. I thank you for your understanding while i will be waiting for
your immediate response.

Best Regard
Yours sincerely,
Adolphfus Aden.




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