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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:
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: <jericho50502000@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: j_erichonyekri@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:56:15 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Jericho Onyekri

From Jericho Onyekri.
From :Abidjan-Cote D'Ivoire.

Greeting,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration since i can not see you face to face.I Being the only son of my father, (Late Onyekri Abraham from Zulu in the Republic of South Africa) I am 22 years old. My father was a limited liability Diamond and Gold, Cocoa, merchant before his
death, precisely a week after his return from Ivory Coast where he went to negotiate for a Diamond and Gold, Cocoa business. He died as a result of a car accident, (may his soul rest in peace) but before he died, as if he knew He disclosed to me that he deposited the sum of ($5,500,000) Five
million, five hundred thousand united state dollars in a private security company in Ivory coast, that the money was meant from the Diamond and Gold, Cocoa business he wanted to establish in Abidjan. Although according to my father he deposited the money a private security company, but decleard
it as Artcraft He gave me,

(1) deposit certificates,
(2) Reciepts of payments,
(3) Agreement papers, so that i can retrieve this funds.

I have arrived in Abidjan (Ivory coast) thank God i have been able to locate the security company and comfirmed the item.Now with most honest and confidentiality i solicite ask for your assistance to retrieve and move this funds into an account in abroad so that we would invest it in any
lucrative business which you would introduce me into over there as you can see, this money is my only hope in life, so i would like to invest it wisely.

I am waiting for your response so that we will discuss the modality of this transaction. Mean while i prepared to offer you 10% of this total sum for your kind assistance immediately we clearred and move the fund into your account.

Thank you and may God bless us all,

Jericho Onyekri



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