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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:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
  • "liberia" (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.
  • mac_donald6060@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mac donald <mac_donald6060@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mac_donald2020@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:33:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: call me on +22505103844


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mac_donald6060@yahoo.com

From: Mac Donald.

Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire

Tel.+22505103844.

Dear,

I am Mac Donald.son of late Gen. Hanis

Donald Chief of Defence staff of Guinea Bissau who

was assassinated late last year in a bloody encounter.


Before his death, he deposited the sum of US$ 23

million in a Security Company here Abidjan in a box

for safe keeping and declared it as belonging to his

foreign partner without the knowledge of the Guinean

Government.

This fund and some more were earlier approved by the

Government for the purchases of arms from France,

through the son of former head of state of France

ex-President François Mitterand for executing and

controlling the rebels incursions into Guinea from

bother Sierra Leon and Liberia.

It was after the hasty burial of my father under

military accolade that I discovered a Certificate of

Deposit in my father’s underground safe issued him by

a Security Company here in Abidjan. And when I showed

it to my mother, she decided that we should

immediately sneak away to here Abidjan to confirm the

deposits with the fear of anticipation of ravages of

war and impending holocaust spreading into the streets

of Guinea.

A day after our arrival here, we confirmed the deposit

and decided hence now the son of ex-President

Mitterand is facing trial for his alleged involvement

in the supply of armunitions to Angola and some

African Countries (his normal business) without the

mention of my dads intention with him. It is in the

best intention of my mother and me to ask you to

assist us to claim the fund as my late father’s

foreign partner.

We wish to find out if you could thus:

1- Permit us to use your name as the beneficiary of

this consignment in the security company hence he

never declared any name.

2- We would want to provide a foreign bank account

into which we can transfer this fund preferably where

taxation will not take a greater toll on the money.

3- I would also want you to introduce me to a

profitable business to invest the fund that does not

require deep technical expertise.

My mother and I have agreed to give you a certain

percentage which is negotiable. Should you agree to

assist us.

Please handle this matter with absolute secrecy as the

safety of the fund and our life depends on this.

I shall be happy to hear from you at the earliest

possible time.

Please send me a reply by email address for the secret

confidential of the deal.

Thanks,

Best Regards

Mac Donald.

- mac donald

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