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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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.
  • +22507824898 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Frank Dumbia <frank_dumbia4@yahoo.it>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:24:35 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Call Me

Dear Sir,

Once again, I thank you for your accpetnace to help me transfer this money to your account in your country and migrate it into a business investment with you in your country, this is real,legal and 100% risk free. The said sum is $10.5M USD deposited in a security company here in Abidjan, and the security company does not know the real content of the box as money for security reasons.

I am going to give you 10% of the total money as your commision for your assistance rendered to the transfer of this money to your bank account in your country. But before we shall proceed with the transfer of this money to your bank account in your country and exposing the necessary informations to you, we will first go into signed agreement and guaranteed that you will not betray us or sit on the money when you confirm the money in your bank account in your country , that you will take 10% out of the total money and hand over the money in any bank account I am going to present to you when I arrive in your country.

Immediately after this agrrement with you I can now work together with you and trust you as my guardian. please I want to leave this country by next week because of the political crisis going on in this country and my life been in danger due to the business associates of my late father who wants to kill me and I do not want to witness the same thing I already witnessed here or fall as a victim of the war.

thanks and I shall send you the written agreement for you to print it out and go through it and sign as it has already draft out. please call me on this telephone number 00225 07824898 for oral discussion with you. please do include your private telephone number for easy communication with you.
God bless
Master Frank

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