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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • solomon101johnson@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Solomon Johnson" <solomon101johnson@walla.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:55:27 +0200
Subject: .........GET BACK TO ME AFTER READING.............


Hello Dear,

Good Day.

Before any thing, i really want you to bear with me after reading my mail, because i know you don't know me in person, of which bad people in this world has made us not to trust the good once again, but i will want you to trust me, as i am a God fearing person, and i will always like truth and honesty to be our watch word in any thing we are doing regarding my request to you.

For your information, i contacted you in regards to a fund that was deposited by my late father in a Bank here in Cote D'Ivoire with my name as the next of kin. Moreso, let me tell you about myself. I am Solomon Johnson, am now 22 years old, the only child of late Mr Albert Johnson. My late father and mother died in a motor accindent when they where coming back from the Church. And before my late father died he told me about his fund deposited in a Bank here in Cote D'Ivoire, and the total amount in question is ( US$4,500,000. Four Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars).

In addition, i will want you to help me in transferring of the fund to your country, so it will enable me to come over to your country and start up a new life. And please the only thing that i need from you is stated below:

1) I need your full Banking information where the fund will be transferred to.

2) I need you to help me with a letter of invitation that will enable me to obtain my visa after the fund gets into your account.

3) I will like you to help me to further my education in your country.

Finally, i will be waiting to read from you, and if you wish to write me please try to write me through this mail ( solomon101johnson@yahoo.com ) .

Thanks and God bless you.

Yours,

Solomon Johnson.

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