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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.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22502162794 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Annabella Philips" <annaphilips30@klikni.cz>
Reply-To: annaphilipsprivate@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 09:32:16 -0700
Subject: From Miss Ann Philips


From Miss Ann Philips
Tel:+225 02162794


My Dearest,

I am Miss Ann Philips from Republic of Sierra Leone,presently here in Ivory
Coast.I lost My father a couple of months ago.My late father was serving as
director of the cocoa exporting board until his death in my home town Sierra
Leone. He died in the hospital after a brief illness when he came back from
hisbusiness trip on January 2008.Before his death he deposited in a metal
box containing the sum of ($5.5M)Five million five hundred thousand USD in a
private security company which was meant for the importation of cocoa
processing machine abroad.

Note:,According to my late father the money is sealed in a trunk box and he
did not disclose to the security company the real content of the box to
aviod eyebrows on the box for the safety of the consignment.He declared to
the security company that the box belongs to his foreign partner and it is
containing Africa artworks.

I want you to do me a favour to help me retrive this box out of the security
company's custody in your name as the foreign partner and invest this fund
in a benefitable investment in your country for the future of my
life.

Please if you are willing to assist me indicate your interest in sending to
me the following information:

Your full name and address
Your marital status
Your occupation
Your country of Origin
Your telephone number

I will be pleased to offer to you 15% Of the total fund for your kind
assistance.

Thanks and God bless
Miss Ann Philips

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