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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.
  • katesuleman@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: infopromotion@canada.com
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:35:19 -0800
Subject: read carefully

Greeting

I know you may be surprise in getting this message from me
due to the fact that you don’t know me before. I decided
to contact you with the hope to get a favourable assistance.
My name is Madame Kate Suleman from Philippines nationality.

I lost my husband few years back in a ghastly motor
accident.Before his death, he deals on cocoa and coffee
business. I inherited the sum of US$ 6.5 Million from him.
Presently, I have a big problem with my husband’s brothers
because they wanted to confiscate all the wealth and landed
properties he left behind and my condition is not in order
because of the cencer..

The above sum was the only thing I was able to secure among
all his properties. Because of their pressure and fear that
they might discover the existence of this fund, I quickly
put the funds in a box coded and arranged with some
diplomatic agents who helped me to send it to Africa, in a
security and finance company in Abidjan, Cote D’ivoire
where my late husband goes to do his coffee and Cocoa
business.

For security reasons, the box was declared as containing
family valuables. In this case, the company in Africa does
not know but they transfer the consignment to Europe but the
exact content of the box was money. I am sending you this
message because I don’t have any trust on my husband’s
brothers and the country where the fund is deposited in
Africa is presently in civil war.

This is giving me sleepless nights. I am therefore
soliciting for your assistance to help me secure the
consignment to your country so that the funds can be
invested promptly. If you agree to help me, we shall
negotiate on what will be your compensation for this noble
assistance.

After the death of my husband, his brothers started treating
me like a prisoner. They forced me to release all his banks
information and other important
documents. They did not stop there; they are monitoring my
movements till today to extent that I can not go out freely
nor answer or make telephone calls. They can only give me
foods and shelter and nothing else.

I can understand that with such treatment, their plan is to
do away with my life so that they can feel comfortable with
what they snatched from me. It is because of this problem
that I decided to contact you for a help to rescue me from
this ugly situation before I die here.

Apart from this money in Europe, I don’t have any other
thing in my life and the company charges US$30.00 per a day
for safeguarding the consignment till today. My financial
situation is completely zero. Upon receipt of your response,
I will send you the contact of the company in Europe so that
you can open up communications with them as my foreign
partner who wants to help me secure the consignment to your
country.You will ask them to send the consignment to
directly to your country.

When this is successfully done and the funds under your
custody, I am counting on you to save my life because I have
a very serious problem now.


Sincerely yours,
Madame Kate Suleman.

PLEASE KINDLY CONTACT ME THROUGH YOUR PRIVATE EMAIL
ADDRESS TO THIS MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS
Katesuleman@netscape.net


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