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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • +22501206690 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "water dorman" <water_14dorman@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: water_dorman2007@walla.com
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:40:40 +0200
Subject: From Water & Sister

>From Water & Sister
TELL,+225 012 066 90
Please I am Water Dorman, the only son of late Chief Dorman Micheal from
Sierra Leone.without any doubt I know that this mail may come to you as a
surprise I got your contact from the ecowas Information Center in Cote
d'Ivoire. My sources of your contact gave me the courage and confidence to
rely on you. I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your
assistance to transfer our cash of Fifteen Million United State dollars
($15,000,000.00) now in the custody of a Security Company here in Abidjan to
your private account pending our arrival to your country. Source of the
money my late father, Chief Dorman Micheal, a native of mende district in
the Northern province of Sierra Leone,was the General Manager of Sierra
Leone mining co-operation (S.L.M.C.) Freetown.
According to my father this money was the in come accrued from mining
co-operation's over draft and minor sales,before the peak of the civil War
between the rebels forces of major Paul Koroma and the combined forces of
ecomog peace keeping operation that almost destroyed my country,following
the forceful removal from power of the civilian elected President Ahmed
Tejan Kabbah by the rebels.
My father had already made arrangement for his family, my mother, my little
sister and myself to be evacuated to Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire with our
personal effects and the box containing team. My father deposited the fund
for the safe custody until after the war when he will join us. During the
war in my country, and following the indiscriminate looting of public and
government properties by the rebel forces, the sierra Leone mining
cooperation Was one of the targets looted and destroyed.My father including
other top Government functionaries were attacked and killed by the rebels in
November 2004 because of his relationship with the civilian government of
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. As a result of my father death, and with the news of my
uncles involvement in Air crash in January, dashedour hope of survival.
The untimely deaths caused my mothers heart failure and other related
complications of which she later died in the Hospital after we might have
spent a lot of money on her. Now my 16-year-old sister and myself are alone
in this strange country suffering without any care or help. without any
relation, we are now like refugees and orphans. Our only hope now is in fund
our father deposited in the Security company to this effect, I humbly
solicit your assistance in the followings ways,to assist me claim this fund
from the Security Company as co-beneficiary to retrieve this money from the
Security Company in your name to and trasfer it to your country to make a
good arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf in your
country and you as the caretaker,to secure a college for my little sister
and my self in your country to further our education and to make arrangement
for our travel with you to your country after you have transferred this
fund.
Most importantly,the whole documents issued after deposit in my custody for
your assistance, I beg to concede 15% of this money to you for your efforts
assistance.
PLEASE REPLY THROUGH THIS Email(water_dorman2007@walla.com)

Best regards,
Water & Sister,

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