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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 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.
  • +22507255852 (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.
  • d_eres46@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: domic eres <d_eres46@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:17:10 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Pls help me to invest in your country (Domic Eres).


I want to spend the rest of my life with you.

Dearest ,

I love your profile and i have decided to get in touch with you,to see if you can help me solve my problem.
My name is Domic K. Eres, My late father(Late Chief Anthony Eres) had lost his life in the course of the crisis in Siera leone . My father willed in cash, the sum of $6.5m (Six million Five hundred united state dollars) which he deposited in a bank here in Cote D'ivoire in fixed deposit in Abidjan west Africa, with enabling conditionalities for the release of the fund which are as follows:
(1) That I must be 22 years or above.
(2) That upon request for the release of the fund, there must be
evidence of investment intentions especially outside the west africa,

I contact you therefore to confirm if you can help me to invest the money in your company or possibly advise me on any investment opportunity in your country. I am above 22 years now and the bank have accepted to transfer the money to any foreign account I will submit. I want everything urgently because of the political crisis here,beside my wicked uncle want to kill me so that he will take all my late father's properties.

The bank will release my fund into an account that you will nominate and I will come over to your country to start my school while you will handle the investment of the money.
I expect your urgent response including your addresse, your telephone and fax number.
Please reply me through this my private email :
d_eres46@yahoo.com
Tel : +225 07255852- Call me with my hotel phone number immediately you receive this mail for more details and action because of the urgency.
Bear in mind that confidential and secret is the key to our success.

Thanks for expected cooperation.
My regards,
Domic Eres,


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