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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  • 0@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: "Steve Toure" <dr_steve1_0@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:57:50 +0000
Subject: From Steve and Gloria

>From Steve and Gloria
Email:dr_steve1_0@yahoo.fr

Hello Dear,
I do not mean to embarras you by this proposal, but to know if i can
confide in you for our safety and also to seek your utmost assistance and it
is my pleasure to write you Based on the information and recommendation I
got about quick growth of investment in your country.

I am MR STEVE TOURE and my sister GLORIA TOURE the children of H.R.H CHIEF
WILLIAMS TOURE of the ex- king of mende tribe in Sierra-Leone. On the 19th
May, 2004 our father was murdered by some rebel group on the accusation that
he is a great sponsor and in support to restore the democratically elected
President of Alahji Tejan Kabba. Almost half of the palace was burnt.
Fortunately I was not in the place when they raided the palace my father
married 2 wives with 10 children my mother , with 6 of my father's children
where murdered in cold blood while my little sister escape the incident with
bullet wounds on his right leg at the moment where the remaining families
are I don't know. Rightnow I am left alone with only one sister after the
sudden assassination of my father the family has been displaced and totally
disorganized left with nothing.

Early that year before the death of my father travelled to abidjan where he
told the family that he deposited 12 million USD in a Bank in Abidjan Cote
d'ivoire,now we are looking for a God fearing person who will assist us in
transfering the money into his account. So I decided to go and search for
the documents where my father use to keep them in his room, I discovered the
documents covering the deposit he made with the Bank and other documents for
his business. As my town has been a serious war zone, I made arrangement and
leave the country with my sister to abidjan Cote d'ivoire now.We have gone
and conform the deposit with the Bank with all the documents,

all the documents are with me here. Now I wish to transfer these funds
abroad and enter into a business venture as the country (Cote d'ivoire) is
no longer in peace since October 2004 the country has witness all sort of
political unrest ranging from ethnic clash which resulted to killing of
innocent citizens and strangers are living in fears as the country is no
longer that peaceful nation as it was before due to this reason that I have
decided to contact you, to assist me to transfered this money out of this
country for the future of me and my younger sister.As soon as you show your
sincererity and interesting we will talk about your persentage and how to
invest the money on your advice.Please I need your assistance. Waiting for
your urgent reply on this private yahoo mailbox dr_steve1_0@yahoo.fr

Thanks and God bless.

Best regards.

John and Gloria





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