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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.
  • mukaba_johnson2006@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mukaba johnson" <mukaba_johnson2006@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 12:32:38 +0200
Subject: From: Mukaba Johnson.

From: Mukaba Johnson.
Abidjan,Cote D’ivoire,
West Africa.

Good Day,

My name is Mukaba Johnson(now an orphan),I am the only son of late Dr and Mrs Gabriel Johnson.i am 19 years old.

Before the death of my father,he was a big exporter of Cocoa and coffee in Cote D’ivoire. My father and my mother were both killed by the rebels group in Cote D’ivoire.Before my father died,he gave me a secret concerning a deposit he made in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire.

He deposit the sum of four million,five hundred thousand united state dollars(US$4.5 million dollars) in my name. I would love you to travel and come down here(abidjan)in person so that we can meet face to face and then we will be able to go together to the bank to transfer the money immediately out of Cote d’Ivoire to your account in your country.

In case you may not be able to come down here in person,I would want you to advice me well on how I will arrange the transfer of the money into your account because i don't know how to transfer money and i don't know who to trust that will teach me. Immediately after the transfer you will help me relocate to your country where i intend to continue my education.

My father's wicked brother nearly poisoned me to death in order to take over my fathers wealth.Due to this dangerous behavior of my father's brother,I decided to escape out of his house and I am presently living in a hotel.

I sincerely need your assistance to help me transfer the money for investment in your country. Your reward for the assistance your are to render to me will be 20% of the money.

Please kindly send me your responce through this email address(mukaba_johnson2006@yahoo.fr)

May God bless you.

Yours Faithfully,
Mukaba Johnson.

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