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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)
  • "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: Valerie <valeriezio2@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: valeriezi@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:09:45 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Miss. Valerie.

>From Miss. Valerie Obani

Dearest One,

I am Miss. Valerie Obani, young medical student from Ivory Coast 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 confident in succeed sometimes in life. There is this huge amount
(us$8.5million) Eight million, five hundred thousand United State Dollars which my late Father deposited on my name in the suspense account with one Bank here in Abidjan before his death.

Now I have decided to invest this 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 Bank and transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment purposes, since the money
is deposited in the suspense account I can not have access to the fund until it is transferred out from the account that is why I am contacting you to assists me and see that the Bank transfer the money into your personal account for to me to leave this country and meet you over there.

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 assistance to me I will be pleased to offer you 15% of the total fund, and again we are going to invest together and share what ever profit we make together, I want you to get back to me as soon as possible so that I will tell you what next step to take to enable us conclude
this transfer.

I am waiting for your soonest response.
Yours Sincerely,
Valerie Obani.





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