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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)
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: fabien_barou11@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:21:04 +0900 (JST)
Subject: We Need Your Assistance Pls.

>From Miss Nelly & Fabien Barou
Abidjan ivory coast
West Africa

Dearest One,
I know that this mail may come to you as unespected since we have not met or known each other before,but I hope that you will treat this matter with love and fear of God.

I am Miss Nelly & Fabien Barou the children of late Mr Barou Michelle. Our Father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discusson a business deal.
Before the death of my father earlier this year in a private hospital here in Abidjan.He secretly called me beside his sick bedside as the elderst child and told me that he has a sum of $8.500.000 (Eight Million five hundred thousand dollars) left in a suspense account in a local Bank here in
Abidjan, that he used my younger brother's name as the next of kin in deposit of the fund.
He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth and some huge amount of money his business associates supposed to balance him from the business deal they had that he was poisoned by his business associates, that we should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of our
choice where we will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose, (such as real estate management five stars hotel or transportation etc..).
Please, we are honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.
1) To provide a bank account where this money would be transferred to.
2) To serve as the guardian of this money since we are so young to handle this all alone and we don't know anything about bank to bank transfer or business world.

Moreover,my younger brother and I are willing to offer you 20% of the sum as compensation for effort input after the successful transfer of this money to your designate account in your country where you will help us to invest this money into any of the above mentioned field while we continue our
studies.
Thanks and God Bless you.
Anticipating to hear from you soonest.
Best regards.
Nelly & Fabien Barou.




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