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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)
  • "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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: CHANTAI KONE <chantaik1w@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: chantaiko@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:28:07 +0530 (IST)
Subject: WITH TRUST FROM CHANTAI KONE


WITH TRUST FROM CHANTAI KONE
 
Dear,
 
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you,as I must not hesitate to confide in you on this simple and sincere business .
I am chantai kone the only surviving daughter of late Mr.and Mrs.Francis kone. My father was a very wealthy  cocoa/caffee merchant and in Abidjan , the economic capital of  Ivory coast, my father was poisoned to death by his  business associates on one of their outings on a  business trip .
  
My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my father on November 2006 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Twelve million five hundred thousand United State Dollars only.USD ($12,500.000) concealed in a trunk box and deposited it with a Security Company in Abidjan which he declare and register as family valuables in depositing the box. He also explained to me that it was because of this money that he was poisoned by his business associates. That I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer the money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate,hotel management or anyother lucrative investement which I may decide.
  
I am seeking your assistance in the following area.
(1) To provide a bank account into which the money would be transferred into .
(2) To serve as a guardian of this money until I finish my education.
(3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to  further my education and to assist me secure a resident permit in your country immediately box is transfers to your country.
  
Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help me to secure and transfer this fund to your account on my behalf and aid me to leave Africa. When I join you, we can then invest jointly in any meaningful lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope in life.
You shall be entitled to a significant portion of the fund which will be deliberated upon your acceptance to this offer. waitting anxiously to hear from you as to discuss modalities of this transaction.
Thanks for your kind attention and expected positive response
Yours Sincerely,
 
CHANTAI KONE


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