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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • jenniferkonan@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "konan jennifer" <konanjennifer@klikni.cz>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 12:42:26 +0100
Subject: Good Day Dear,


*Good Day Dear,*
**
*Email Address;(**jenniferkonan@yahoo.fr* <jenniferkonan@yahoo.fr>*)*
**
*My name is jennifer konan ,am 22 years old,I am Ivorian Natinonality in
West African regoin.I am the only daugther of late CHIEF WALEHJI konan, my
late father is the former Director of Gold and Diamond Minning industry here
in Bouakee before the rebels attacked our house and kill my mother and my
father,Luckly to me,i was in school at Ghana when the incident happens.

Before the death of parents,my father told me that he deposited the sum of
US$ 9,500,000.( Nine Million,Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) with a Bank here
in Abidjan under fixed suspence account that he used my name as the next of
kin that i should be 25 years before having access to it.He also told me
that his intention was to open Bank account in overseas and transfer the
money for foreign investments.*
**
*If you agree on this, I'll give you 20% of the total share when
transferred, then 5% will be given to you if you made any expense on the
cause of the transfer. Please,my reasons of contacting you is to request for
your co-operation and assistance to help me transfer this money into a
foreign account of yours by providing a bank account either companys or your
private account where the money can be remitted in your care until I
finished my Education career in your country. Please remember the
confidentiality and urgency my mail required while I expect to hear from
you.*
**
*Thanks and God bless you and your family.
Yours Sincerely,
*
*Jennifer Konan. *

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