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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "j'ai une nouvelle adresse mail" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
  • "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.
  • tmp_d1982@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • dbwe101@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Monique=20E.=20David?=" <tmp_d1982@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:58:24 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Miss E.M. Bangura


J'ai une nouvelle adresse mailVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : tmp_d1982@yahoo.fr

Miss E.M. Bangura

Lot 121 rue 12, Abidjan

Cote D'Ivoire.

dbwe101@yahoo.com

Dear



I am Miss Elizabeth M. Bangura, 22 Yrs from Sierra Leone but presently living in Ivory Coast as a refugee. I have this confidential and important revelation to make to you but before i go on i would like you to humbly advise you to delete this message from your email box and never remember that i contacted you where you feel that you cannot help me.



This is all i have in this my life and it is my destiny. It is true that iam about entrusting this in your hands without even knowing or seeing you it is a big risk but i know that God in heavens will not disappoint me.and I am contacting you because I need your help in the management of a sum of money that my late father left for me before he died.This money is USD 3.5 million American Dollars and the money is in a Dormant suspense Dormicillairy account in a bank here in Abidjan the capital city of Cote D'Ivoire, he made the deposit with the name of my senior brother Late Joseph Bangura who also is dead.



My father was a very rich cocoa merchant and he was poisoned to death by his business colleagues who happens to be our uncles, and now I want you to stand as my guardian and my appointed beneficiary and receive the money in your bank account in your country since I am only 22 years and without mother or father.My mother died during child birth when i was only six years.



Iam expecting your ugent and positive reply to this email so that I will tell you all the information concerning this transfer, so that this money will be transferred to your account.



You will also help me to re-locate to your country to finish my education while you will help me to invest the money in business fields that are lucrative.

I am waiting for your urgent reply.I wouldn’t want to bother you with my suffering, lack, humillaition, hunger and sufferings that iam presently facing, help me get this money out of here and you will be saving me from death nad iam ready to give you 25% of the total money at the conclusion of the transfer.



Thanks.

Miss Elizabeth Monique Bangura



REPLY ME ON THIS EMAIL PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS: dbwe101@yahoo.com

- Monique E. David

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