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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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin 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.
  • +22507420630 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • celine7b7@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • celinecj11@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: CELINE AKOMAH <celine7b7@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:32:09 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: BUISNESS PROPOSAL.




Tel:+22507420630
Email celine7b7@yahoo.fr


Dear Sir,

Compliments of the season and how you are today i hope fine. Before I proceed I would like to introduce my self to you.

My name is Ms Celine Akomah, a staff in accounts department I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. I got your contact from (worldwide companies Directory).

On June 6 2001, an oil contractor with the ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE National Petroleum Corporation MR. AHMED DASUKI made a numbered time (fixed) deposited for twelve calendar valued at US8, 000,000.00 in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contact employers COTE D'IVOIRE National Petroleum Corporation that MR. AHMED DASUKI, died in auto crash along with his entire family.

On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that MR. AHMED DASUKI did not declare any next of kin in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork. This sum of US$8.000.000.00 is still sitting in the Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will come forward to claim it.

According to the ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE Law, at the expiration of 6 years, the money will revert to the ownership of the COTE D'IVOIRE Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to MR. AHMED DASUKI so that the fruit of this old mans labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials.

As an Accountant and a staff of this BANK, What we have to do is to
send to me your complete names, address and information’s which I will secretly programme in the computer account file of late MR. AHMED DASUKI in the computer record of our bank, as his registered associate before his death and who is entitle to inherit the fixed deposit which he deposited in our bank when he die.

After this I will send to you a text of an application letter for claim which you will write and submit to the banking and operation unit of our bank for their approvals, for the successful releasing and transfer of the fund to your account in your country.

May I inform you that screecy, trust; honest and confident should be a base for the success of this transaction, base on this, me and you are much expected to keep this business very secret and confidential.

I am promising that as soon as we get this fund transferred into your account, I will give to you 40% of the total sum as a compensation for your full assistance, while 60% will be for me and i will be interested in investing part of my own share in a good investment in your country.

More information of the steps to follow in order to actualise this aim will be detail to you as soon as you are interested, There is no risk attached, as my position as accountant of this BANK, guarantees the successful execution of this business.

Awaiting your urgent reply via my private e-mail ( celinecj11@yahoo.com ) Feel free to call me on my house telephone number (+22507420630) for more details. I expecting your urgent reply.

Best regards,
Ms. Celine Akomah





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