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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:
  • "please indicate your interest" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "account in your country or any safer place" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "confidentiality of this transaction" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Miss Nancy Tanon <nancy_tanon27@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: nancytanon1000@yahoo.cn
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:52:32 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Miss Nancy Tanon (read carefully)

Many thanks for your prompt response to this message.I appreciate your kind gesture to find time to give response to my message.


Base on your profile, i am very happy to request for your assistance and also to go into business partnership with you, if you don稚 mind. I do believe that you will not betray my trust which i am going to lay on you.


I am very sorry to come to you in this way and any inconvenience this mail may bring, but i believe firmly that through the basis of humanitarian assistance my plea will be threated with favourable attention.

My name is Miss Nancy Ayah Tanon,i am now 22years .I am the only daughter of Dr and Mrs.Happi Richard Tanon, from Ivory Coast. I am an orphan being that i lost my parents a couple of years ago.

My late father was a serving director of the Cocoa exporting board until his death.He was also into real estates properties and Oil & Gas .He was shot to death and my mother raped and killed when a group of unknown gunmen invaded our residence three years ago following the political crisis in
my country.

Before my father's death he had deposited in a Financial Institution here in Ivory Coast a sum of $15.5m {Fifteen million five hundred thousand United States dollars} which he told this Institution that it is for the importation of cocoa processing machines from his partner.

I want you to do me a favour to receive this funds to a safe account in your country or any safer place as the beneficiary.

I have plan to do investment in a foreign country, like real estate and industrial production.This is my reason of writing you. Please if you are willing to assist me please indicate your interest.


I have mapped out 80% for myself as well and 20% for your cordial assistance .

Finally if you have any question as regards this, please contact me immediately.


Note that the confidentiality of this transaction would be highly appreciated in replying soonest.

PLEASE DO SEND YOUR RESPONSE COMPULSORILY TO THIS MY PRIVATE MAIL FOR SECURITY REASONS.
{ nancytanon1000@yahoo.cn}

Thanks and best Regards.



























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