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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.
  • ibibajack11@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "IBIBA JACK ." <ibiba_jack001@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:46:49 +0200
Subject: FROM IBIBA JACK


Hello Dear,

I really want you to bear with me after reading my
mail, because bad people in this world has made us not
to trust the good once again, of which i am a God
fearing person, and that is why i am writing you this
mail, hoping you can be trusted.

Well, before anything, let me tell you about myself.
I am Mr. Ibiba Jack, am a Bank manager in a Bank here
in Abidjan-Cote D'Ivoire, with time i will give you
our Bank web-site for you to go through it and read
about me. Moreso, i am writing you this mail in
regards to a fund deposited here in our Bank by one
late Mrs. Lilian Jones. For your information, since
Mrs. Lilian Jones died, nobody has come for the claims
of the fund.

In addition, that is why i am writing you this mail,
because i want you to claim as a business partner to
Late Mrs. Lilian Jones, so nobody in our Bank here in
Abidjan-Cote D'Ivoire will know about this
transaction, and have it in mind that all the vital
documents that covers the fund in our Bank is here
with me in my office, all i will do once i read from
you is to change all the documents in your name, so it
will enable me to transfer the fund into your account
without any problem.

Finally, the money in question is $4,500,000. only,
and i will give you the sum of 20% from the total sum
as soon as it gets into your account, therefore you
should try and get back to me after reading my mail
with my person email address: ibibajack11@yahoo.com .

Thanks and i look forward to read from you.

Yours,

Ibiba Jack.

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