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

Fraud email example:

From: sussy owen <suzzyiowen03@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:07:24 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From Sussy Owen


From sussy owen
Email: sussywn@yahoo.com
Dear One,

How is everything? I hope i met you in good condition? My mail might look strange to you but find a good place in your heart to consider me.

I am Sussy Owen from Abidjan the economic capital city of Ivory Coast in West African Region. I am the only surviving child of late Mr. and Mrs. Damian Owen. My late father was a cocoa merchant and agricultural equipment supplier in my country. My mother died when i was kid and my father died last year after a serious illness.

Right now, i am having problem with my uncle, who wants me dead by all means just because he wants to seat on my inheritance. He has been trying to collect all my father left for me before he died. From all indication and what my father told me before his death, it is true that he (my uncle) killed my father with poisonous substance. And my father deposited some huge amount money in a Fixed Deposit Account in my country, and the money was deposited with my name as next of kin, that is what my wicked uncle is targeting right now. Meanwhile, i have confirmed the money with the Bank Executives where the money is deposited.

Please, i want you to assist me to secure the money in your country by transfering the money in your account.

I will give you 15% of the total money if you can assist me.

Hope to hear from you with my private email contact: sussywn@yahoo.com, so that i can give the detail about the money and how we can proceed with the transfer.

Yours,
Sussy Owen




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