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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 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.
  • yaba_madelaine@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: yaba madelaine <yaba_madelaine@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:06:07 +0100 (CET)
Subject: YOUR HELP PLEASE


FROM: MADELAINE AND ERIC YABA
REVIRA ABIDJAN (COTE D'IVOIRE)
WEST AFRICA.
E-mail: yaba_madelaine@yahoo.fr


Dear Sir,

I am Madelaine Yaba , the first daughter of late former Director of finance, Chief George A. Yaba Sierra-Leone diamond and mining corporation.
I must confess my agitation is real, and my words is my bond,in this
proposal. My late father diverted this money meant for purchase of
ammunition, for my country, during the peak of disastrous civil war in my country, now he has deposited the box in a security company here in Abidjan as a family valuable,where I am residing under political Assylum with my younger brother ERIC Yaba who is 14 years old.

Now the war in my country is over with the help of ECOMOG soldiers, the present government of Sierra Leone has revoked the passport of all officers who served under the former regime and now ask countries
to expel such person at the same time freeze their account and
confiscate their asset, it is on this note that I am contacting you.

All I needed from you is to furnish me with your particulars:
Your private telephone /fax numbers
Home address

For you to assist me retive this box. in a security company here were the box was deposited, the said amount is twenty two million Dollars (US$16.000.000.00 Million).and 75 kilogrammes of gold. I am compensating you with 15 % of the total amount, note that the security company does not know the content of this box it is only you and i that knows the content so keep it secretly.now all my hope is banked on you and I really want
to invest this money in your country, were their is stability of Government, political and economic welfare.

Honestly I want you to believe that this transaction is real and never a joke. My late father gave me the deposit slip issued to him by
by the security company on the date of deposit, for you to be clarify because, I do not expose my self to anybody I see, I believe that you are able to keep this transaction secret for me because this money is the hope of my life, it is important.

Please write me immediately after you must have gone through my message fill free and make it urgent. That is the reason why I offered you 15 % of the total amount, and in case of any other necessary expenses you might incure, I am resolving to give
you an addition of 2% during this transaction.

N.B: Try and negotiate for me some profitable blue chip investment
opportunities which is risky free which we can invest this money
when it is retive from the security company here to your country.personally I am interested in
estate management and hotel business, please advise me. And promise me and my younger brother to be our guardian considering our situation and not to betray us.

And my late father used me as the beneficiary / next of kin
on the day of deposit and also told me I need an assistance of a
foreigner with a legitimate foreign partner abroad who will stand as
co-beneficiary and partner abroad to ensure a successful hitch free
to retive this box.

Thanks and God bless. Awaiting to hearing from you.

Sincerely yours,

MADELAINE AND ERIC YABA








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