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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:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • joeland20064@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: joe david <joeland20064@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:45:32 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Call for assitance



FROM JOSEPH AND MARIE FANTA,
ABIDJAN COTE D'IVORIE,

Dearest One ,
Our names are Joseph and Marie we are the children of Late Chief Michael Fanta .M. the former Assistance Director of military intelligence and special acting General Manager of the Sieria Leone Diamond mining cooperation (SLDMC). We are contacting you to seek your good assistance to transfer and invest USD14,300,000.00 thousand belonging to our late father, which is deposited in a bank in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire.

This money is revenues from solid minerals and diamonds sale which were under our fathers possession before the civil war broke out in our country Sierra-Leone. Following the brake out of the war, almost all government offices, cooperation’s and parastatals were attacked and vandalized. The (SLDMC) was looted and burnt down to ashes, and diamonds worth millions of dollars was stolen by the rebel military forces who attacked our father's office. Many top government officials and senior army officers were assassinated and my father was a key target because of his very sensitive military position and appointment in the SLDMC. Regrettably, our father was captured and murdered along with half our brother in cool blood during a mid-night rebel shoot-out when our official residence in Freetown was ambushed by Fordey Sanko the notorious rebel leader.
My mother sustained very sever bullet injuries which resulted to her untimely and painful death in a private hospital here in Ivory Coast. Now we are alone in a totally strange country without parents, relatives or any body to care for us at our tender ages. Before our mother died, she told us that our late father deposited some money which was made from diamond sales and contracts in a bank here in Ivory Coast and that we should pray and find a trustworthy foreign business partner who would help us to transfer and invest this money in profitable business venture overseas. She told us to do this quickly so that we can leave Ivory Coast, then settle down abroad. She gave us all the bank documents to prove the deposit and then told us that our late father used my name (Williams Papaya Fanta) as the only son to deposit the money in the bank here. She told us that this is the reason why we came to Ivory Coast. My mother died afterwards. May her spirit rest in perfect peace Amen. I have
gone to the bank to make inquires about this money and I spoke with the director of International remittance who assured me that everything is ok in their computers. I am 26years and as such the director promised to help me.
If you are willing to assist us, please let us know immediately through our private email address(joeland20064@yahoo.fr) and provide us with your following information’s for bank here to make the transfer:
1. Your full names and address, tell/ fax/ mobile
2. Name of Bank and address, Tel/fax/telex
3. Account name and number.
Please note that I and my younger sister Suzan have mapped out 20% for your noble assistance and 5% for your telephone calls bills to us or any other expenses that may occur during the transaction in accordance with our mothers advise. we are interested in any profitable commercial venture which you consider very good in your country and you would also get a school for me and my sister where we can finish our college education.
We are hoping to hear your urgent response so that We can stop look for another foreign partner. Thank you and may God bless you and your dear family.
As we look forward for your urgent response.

Best Regards,
Joseph and Marie Fanta




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