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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:
  • "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)
  • "million united states 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)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• 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.
  • mrsroselyne_2010@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: mrsroselyne_2010@hotmail.fr
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:14:06 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Mrs Roselyne

Ivory Coast, West Africa
Private mail I.d mrsroselyne_2010@hotmail.fr

Dear respectful one,

With due respect and humility I write you this letter which I believe you would be of great assistance to me and my children.

I am Mrs Roselyne Dawson, the wife of the late Dr Charles Dawson. Prior to my husband assassination by the rebel forces, he was the Director General National Gold and Diamond Mining Corporation of Liberia during the time of charls taloy.

Few days before my husband was assassinated, he instructed me and my children (George and Henry) to move out of Liberia and also to go in his underground strong room where the documents of money he has deposited in a finance company in Abidjan Cote d Ivoire in one trunk box as family valuables and
treasures with the name of my first son Mr George as the beneficiary. The amount is US$28.000.000 (Twenty Eight Million united states dollars).We managed to escape to Abidjan the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire through the help of my husband s friend who is a trawler. As our travelling document was
seized.

I am now looking for a trustworthy and God fearing person who will handle this money for rapid profit for the future of my two fatherless children.

For your information, the finance company did not know the real content of the box and we do not wish them to know until the money is transferred to your account. As it was deposited as family valuables and treasures.

Meanwhile, I want to leave Cote d Ivoire entirely for investment of this money in your country and mostly for the future of my children. I want you to please assist us to claim the box from the finance company and to deposit the money in your account as to order the bank to transfer the money to
your account in your country. As our foreign partner.

We have it in mind to reward you with a certain percentage for your assistance.Please send to us this informations your full name your home address,occupation,age and phone number immediately you receive this letter to enable us proceed in earnest towards retrieving the box and transferring of the
money into your account.mind you that my son geroge speak good english more than me cause i go to school in french country not in liberia.

Finally please ensure that no one else knows about this money as it is only myself my son, yourself ,May God bless you as you assist me.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs Roselyne Dawson

Pls do not fail to use this my private email id mrsroselyne_2010@hotmail.fr to get back to me for more details,












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