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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:
  • "any lucrative business in your country" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "j'ai une nouvelle adresse mail" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • marcydavid06@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?marcy=20david?= <marcydavid06@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 11:31:21 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: marcy


J'ai une nouvelle adresse mailVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : marcydavid06@yahoo.fr

From Ms.Marcy David.

Please Get Back To Me Soon.


Dear,


I am Marcy David from Ivory Coast. Being that I lost my perents a

couple of months ago. My Father was a serving director of the Cocoa

exporting board until his death, He was assassinated by the rebels

following the political uprising in our country and my mother died

while i was a child.


Before my Father's death he deposited in one bank here in Ivory

Coast the the sum of $18.5 Million. I want you to do me a favour by

assisting me receive the money in your bank account and investing it

into any lucrative business in your country and help me to come to

your country to continue my education as well take care of me in

investing this money based on an agreed percentage .


I have no trusted person in my father's family to hand over my trust

since am a Girl and the culture here was that since my father has no

son the family has taken all they can lay their hand on since a

woman has no cultural right for such, but my father knows toowell

about this culture this is why he told me personally about this

deposit and asked me not to let any of the family to know about the

secrete deposit for my future life sake as he handed the covering

deposit papers to me..


If you please find any reason to help me kindly get back to me with

your private cell and fax number for full details of this deposit.

am humbly waiting to hear from you soon.


Please Get Back to me soon as any delay will mean my sorting for

another person.


Thanks and best regards.

From Ms. Marcy David.







- marcy david

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