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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 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.
  • annphillips50@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ann Phillips" <annphillips50@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:57:54 +0000
Subject: Read From Miss. Ann Philip

Miss. Ann Philip
Abidjan Cote d'ivoire
West Africa
Tel:00225 07379393
Reply To Email: annphillips50@hotmail.co.uk

Introduction.
It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to
establish in your country. Though I have not met with you before but I
believe, one has to risk confiding in succeed sometimes in life. There is
this huge amount of eight million U.S dollars($8,000,000.00) which my late
Father kept for with a Fiduciary Fund Holder in Abidjan before his Death.

Now I have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe
enough outside Africa for security and political reasons.I want you to help
me claim and retrieve these fund from the Fiduciary Fund Holders and
transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment
purposes on these areas:

1). Telecommunication
2). The Transport Industry
3). Five Star Hotel
I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
1) To provide a bank account into which this money would be transferred to .
(2) To serve as a guardian of this fund.
(3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my
education and to secure a resident permit in your country

If you can be of an assistance to me I will be pleased to offer to you 10%
Of the total fund. I await your soonest response.

Respectfully yours,
Miss. Ann Philip

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