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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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.
  • +34653536799 (Spain, 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.
  • colmann_1_koroma@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: colman_koroma@zwallet.com <colman_koroma2000@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Colmann_1_koroma@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:50:11 +0200
Subject: Colmann Koroma


From: Colmann Koroma
E-Mail: Colmann_1_koroma@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +34 653536799
ATT:
Dear Sir,
I am Colman Koroma from Sierra Leone. I am the son of late Dantata Koroma
the former chairman / board of director of Sierra Leone Diamond mining Cooperation.
During the war in my country my father was shot by the rebels of
Foday Sankoh of the Capital city, Free Town. After his death, my mother escaped from the country.
As a result of my discrete search for a reliable Foreign partner, I am delighted in you based on a profile conviction about your experience in offshore
investment program,
which I got from chambers of commerce and industry here
in
Spain. I now decided to write to you to assist me in an investment program, and I need
your assistance to help me in investing my money in your country . In few days before my father was assassinated, he instructed me to leave the Country with my Mum and a little sister and warned me strongly to go to his underground safe where the documents of a box which he deposited in a security Company in Abidjan Cote d`ivoire was . This trunk sealed box contain USD22million dollars (twenty-two million dollars) and was declared by my father as a family treasures and personal artifice . All the original documents has my name on it as the first son and beneficiary .
Hoping that you will respond to my call to assist me in investing this money, because I am totally ignorant of investment and I was in school when the war broke
out in my country.
For your assistance and cooperation, I have decided to give to you, 20% of the total sum involved and 5% is mapped out for any miscellaneous expenses that we
incur during the process of transferring this money to your country. Moreover, it is risk free in this transaction. I am presently 24 years of age and should
not safekeeping till I am convinced that you can
accommodate the money.
The bottom line is that we need to meet in Spain to arrange on the relocation of the fund to your country.
Items on the things I want are:
1. Help me to bank the money in safe account.
2. Help me to get residential paper and giving me
directions as to what to invest on.
Please give me a call as soon as you receive my message to enable me finalize with the Security company where to I deposited the fund.
Best Regards
Colman Koroma.

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