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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • @rocketmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Natou Johnson." <natou_johnson1@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: natou_johnson@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:01:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From: Miss. Natou Johnson.


From: Miss. Natou Johnson.

Dearest One,

I am Miss. Natou Johnson young medical student from west africa. i would like to go into a partnership with you It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your country. Though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in succeed sometimes in life. There is this huge amount ($6.500,000,00) Million USA Dollar which my late Father kept for with a Fiduciary Fund Holder in Abidjan before her Death.

Now I have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security and political reasons. I want you to help me claim and retrieve these fund from the Fiduciary Fund Holders and transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment purposes.
I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:

1) To provide a bank account into which this money would be transferred to.
(2) To serve as a guardian of this fund.
(3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to secure a resident permit in your country If you can be of an assistance to me I will be pleased to offer to you 20% Of the total fund.

I await your soonest response.
Yours Sincerely,
Miss. Natou Johnson.


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