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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22506338814 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • lindakone@tsamail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <lindakone@centrum.cz>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:38:34 +0200
Subject: FROM DAVID AND LINDA KONE.


FROM DAVID AND LINDA KONE.
SOS CAMP COCODY.
Avenu 12 Reu 47 ABIDJAN
REPUBLIC OF COTE-D'IVOIRE
PLEASE YOU CAN REPLY US WITH THIS lindakone@tsamail.co.za                            
Dear SIR/MADAM ,
Our sincere Greetings to you,
I know that this mail will come to as a surprise but please it was borne out of a desparate need for assistance. I am David Kone the only son of late MR.Benson from Sierra Leone. I got your contact from the Ecowas Infomation Center in Cote d' Ivoire. My source of your contact gave me the courage and confidence to rely on you. I am writting you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance to transfer the amount of sixten Million  United States dollars(US16,000.00)now in the custody of a BANK here in Abidjan to your private account in your country.
 
Iam 22 years old. and my sister Linda is 16. 
My late father Mr. BENSON KONE was before his death the general manager of the sierra leone mining and diamond corporation. He was  killed  when the rebels invaded the company during the civil war in my country whih caused us to run to cote d'ivoire with our late mother. But on getting to cote d' ivoire my mother developed a heart ailment which claimed her life. but before she died she gave me the documents of the money which my late father deposited in a bank here in cote d' ivoire.  which is $m16.
 
 She pleaded that we should look for a good and trust worthy person abroad who will help us to transfer this money out of here  and help us to come over to his or her country to continue our education.and investement of the money. right now I and my sister Linda are staying at a refugee camp here without any helper except God.
 
So please  I am seeking for your assistance to transfer this money  out of here so that i and my sister could have a new life because we are suffreing a lot here.FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE I BEG TO CONCEED 20% OF THIS MONEY TO YOU. you can reach me on the phone with this number; +225-06-33-88-14  for more explanations.
 
God bless you as I await your reply.
 
Yours sincerely,
David and Linda Kone

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