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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.
  • pallison1@strompost.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?us-ascii?Q?Peter=20Allison?= <Peter.Allison@seznam.cz>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:30:41 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: =?us-ascii?Q?From=20Peter=20Allison=2E?=

From Peter Allison.
Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire.
alt.Email:pallison1@strompost.com

Good Day and God bless you as I introduce myself to you with all faith, trust and hope that you will accept this sincere proposal to assist us and not to betray us at the end.

I am 23 Years old with my sister Linda. My father died about 2 years ago in a car accident when he is rushing to his gold minning Site in my country Sierra Leone. He was into legal gold minning. But before his death, he told me about the deposit of Eight Million Six hundred United State dollars ($8.6 M) which he deposited with a bank here in abidjan Cote D'Ivoire a near by country for onward transfer due to the political problems in my country. He gave me the documents of the deposit and my name as the next of kin to the deposit.

I sincerely need's your help to assist us to receive this money in your country, so that me and my sister will come over to meet you in your country to start our education and a new living since we don't have any foreign bank account to transfer the money into. I am willing to give you 15% of the money after the bank must have transferred the money to your account.

Please e-mail me immidately you read this mail to know your stands, so that I will know whether to look somebody else to assist us since you're the first person I'm contacting about this. Please permit me to ask; CAN YOU HONESTLY HELP US AS YOUR OWN PEOPLE? CAN WE COMPLETELY TRUST YOU? Please, Treat this email confidential and get back to me as soon as possible.

Best Regards,
Peter Allison.

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