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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "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.
  • +22508771841 (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.
  • villneni6@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Villaran Khalif" <villandleo1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: villneni6@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:30:46 +0000
Subject: FROM VILLARAN AND LEONARD KHALIF.

FROM VILLARAN AND LEONARD KHALIF.
TELEPHONE:+22508771841
ABIDJAN REP OF IVORY COAST
(villneni6@yahoo.com )

APPEAL FOR URGENT AND SINCERE HELP
ATT:

Dearest,

I know my message will come to you as a Surprise. First of all, I will like
to wish you a Compliment of the season. I Villaran Anita Khalif and I am
writing to you this mail together with my younger brother Leonard Khalif
from Abidjan Rep of Cote 'Ivoire. We hope you will Permit us to inform you
of our desire of going into business relationship with you,and decided to
contact you for this humble assistance. We prayed over this issue before
contacting you and we beleive that you will be a trustworthy and God fearing
person and will not betray us when this money is transfered into your
account. Our father was a very wealthy Business merchant , He was into
cacao,Diamond and Gold business in the economic capital of Ivory coast, Our
father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their
outings on a business trip. Our mother died when we were still very young
and since then our father took us so special. Before the death of our father
on May 2003 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called us on
his bed side and told us that he deposited the sum of US$ 18,000,000.00
Million, in of the Prime Bank here, He told us that he deposited this money
for onward transfer to a foreign account for investment purpose Abroad. He
also explained to us that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned
by his business associates . He Advice us to seek for a trustworthy Person
as a foreign partner in a country of our choice where we will transfer this
money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management or
hotel management after we finish our Education. Please, We got your contact
and because of the current political situation in this country now ,we are
humbly seeking for your able assistance to assist us in transferring this
inheritance abroad in your desgnated account in your country. Please we are
Sincerely beging you with the name of our Almighty God to assist in the
following ways

(1)To provide a bank account into which this money would be transferred to.
(2) To serve as a guardian of this inheritance since we are still very young
to handle this money.
(3)To Help us to Relocate over to your country to continue our Education and
arrange together with you on how to invest this money in your country.

We are willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your
effort/input after the successful transfer of this money into your nominated
account. Please, Kindly get back to us through this our telephone Number
(+225 08771841) or you can send us mail on this for more discussion and
modalities of this transaction and we are willing to offer to you the 15% of
the total Money and also a negotiable percentage for the investment project.
We have with us all the documents regarding this deposit and will send it to
you together with the first page of our international passport and our
personal pictures on confirming to us your interest to assist us in
this transaction. We will also like to have your own personal identity
because we believe that this will help pave way for us to know each other
very well before meeting in person. We must let you know that this
transaction is 100% risk free and in no way conneted with any illegal
transaction, Please help us to get out of this terrible situation and our
Almigthy will bless you.Anticipating to hear from you soon.

Thanks and Allah bless.
Best regards,
Villaran & Leonard Khalif
contact us throught this mail address(villneni6@yahoo.com)

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