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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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22507255852 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • d_eres17@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Domic Eres" <d_eres17@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:07:21 +0200
Subject: Pls help me to invest in your country(Mr Domic Eres).


From Mr Domic Eres
Abidjan,Cote d'ivoire
West africa.
Please reply to d_eres17@yahoo.fr for more details and action
Tel : +225 07255852
Dearest,
I love your profile and I want to spend the rest of my life with . I am Domic Eres from Sierra Leone West Africa, The only survival child of late Mr Anthony Eres ,my father was poisoned to death by his business associates because of his wealth and during my fathers sickness, he called me on his sick bed as his only survival son because my mother died when am young and told me about the money ($6.000.000) he deposited in a bank here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire that it was because of this money he was poisoned that if he dies, I should look for someone whom I trust to help me transfer this money out of this our country to a foreign account for investment purpose abroad while i will continue my education, then the person will be managing the investment for me untill I finish my school and matured to handle the investment by myself.
Dearest, I am soliciting your assistance to help me transfer this money out of this country for the investment purposes and also to safe my life because my wicked uncle want to kill me so that he will take all my late father's belongings.
My dearest, I am looking forward to hear from you so that we can discuss on what will be your compensation for this assistance and where we will invest the money after the transfer.
I need your bank account details for the transfer, your direct telephone numbers for confidencial communication and your fax numbers so that I can be able to fax the deposit documents to you.

NB:Please reply to d_eres17@yahoo.fr for more details and action because of the urgency.
Please bear in mind that confidential and secret is the key to our sucess.
Thanks
Domic Eres,

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