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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.
  • f_williams099@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Fred Williams" <f_williams099@walla.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 14:15:37 +0100
Subject: Form Dr Fred Williams

Hello Dear,

I know you don't know me in person, but before anything i will want you to go through my request and be of good assistance to me, because nothing God can not do, of which bad people in life has made us not to trust the good once again.
Before anything, let me tell you about myself. I am Fred Williams a 18 year old boy, resident in Abidjan-Cote D'Ivoire. Be informed that i am writing you this mail only to seek for your assistance. In regards to a deposit of $6,000,000.00 ( Sex Million Dollars ) that was deposited by my late father Col. Benjamin Williams, that was working with the United Nation here in Abidjan-Cote D'Ivoire. For your information, there is no risk in this transaction, the said sum is been deposited in a Bank here in Abidjan-Cote D'Ivoire in my own name, of which i went to the Bank with all the vital document's that covers the money. The remittance director of the Bank ask me to provide my account information where i want them to transfer the money into.
Furthermore, i will want you to help me as a God fearing person, to transfer the fund into any of your trust account, so it will enable me to come over to you in your country and further my education, please your assistance is needed in this transaction, because i believe with your assistance the money will be into your account within 14 working days time. So please if you have make up your mind to assist me in this transaction try all your best to get back to me, in order for me to give you the full contact address of the Bank for you to contact with them on my behalf for onward transfer of the money.
Finally, i will be looking forward to read from you, and please let truth and honesty be our watch word in this transaction.

Please do get to me through my private E-mail address for security reasons (f_williams099@yahoo.ca <mailto:f_williams099@yahoo.ca>)

Thanks and God bless you as i hope to read from you.
Yours,

Fred Williams.

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