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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • mariasaraakim3@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: maria akim <mariasaraakim3@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: maria_sakim@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:51:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dear One,(Mrs Maria Akim George Cole,) Please look into my plight.


Dear One, Please look into our plight.
I am Mrs Maria Akim George Cole,
From from England, Please get back
to this my private emailbox for security
purpose : mariasaraakim3@yahoo.com

Dear Sir/Madam,



It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your country, though I have not meet with you before but I believe one has to
risk confiding in success sometimes in life.

I am Mrs Maria Akim George Cole.,the wife of Mr.Akim George Cole, from England who prostate cancer killed here in Cote D' Ivoire,there is this huge amount of $ 5 Million US Dollars ( Five Million United States Dollars) which my late husband deposited in a prime bank here in Cote D' Ivoire before his death.

Now I and my younger only douther have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere save enough outside Africa for security and political reasons,we want you to help us claim and retrieve these fund from the bank and Transfer it into your personalaccount in your country for investment purposes on profitable ventures.

you will also help me get a school for my douther, so that she will finish her education in your country.If you are willing to assist us, please get this information below to enable us submit it to the bank as my late husband business partner foreign :

1) Your full name/house address...............
2) your country state name................
3) your fax/telephone number.............

If you can be of an assistance to us, out of the 100% we will be pleased to offer you 30% of the total fund while we have set aside 10% of the total fund for any expenses incurred by you during the process of having your namewritten in all transfer document as my late husband business partner.

I await your soonest response.

N.B. Upon your interest, I will forward you the bank contact immediately and tell you what to do as the transaction will be for the benefit of the both parties.

Please get back to this my private emailbox for security purpose : mariasaraakim3@yahoo.com

Respectfully yours,
Mrs Maria Akim George Cole.


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