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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (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 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.
  • kamanibintou@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "kamani bintou" <zkamanibintou@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kamanibintou@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:41:41 +0000
Subject: From Bintou Kamani

>From Bintou Kamani.
>From :Abidjan-Cote D'Ivoire.

Greeting,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration since i can not see
you face to face.I Being the only daughter of my father, (Late kamani
Abraham from Zulu in the Republic of South Africa) I am 21 years old. My
father was a limited liability Diamond and Gold, Cocoa, merchant before his
death, precisely a week after his return from Ivory Coast where he went to
negotiate for a Diamond and Gold, Cocoa business. He died as a result of a
car accident, (may his soul rest in peace) but before he died, as if he knew
He disclosed to me that he deposited the sum of ($5,500,000) Fave million,
five hundred thousand united state dollar in a private security company in
Ivory coast, that the money was meant from the Diamond and Gold, Cocoa
business he wanted to establish in Abidjan. Although according to my father
he deposited the money a private security company, but decleard it as
Artcraft He gave me,

(1) deposit certificates,
(2) Reciepts of payments,
(3) Agreement papers, so that i can retrieve this funds.

I have arrived in Abidjan (Ivory coast) thank God i have been able to locate
the security company and comfirmed the item.Now with most honest and
confidentiality i solicite ask for your assistance to retrieve and move this
funds into an account in abroad so that we would invest it in any lucrative
business which you would introduce me into over there as you can see, this
money is my only hope in life, so i would like to invest it wisely.

You can contact me immediately through this email
address,(kamanibintou@yahoo.com) so we will discuss the modality of this
transaction. Mean while i prepared to offer you 10% of this total sum for
your kind assistance immediately we clearred and move the fund into your
account.
Thank you and may God bless us all,

Bintou Kamani

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