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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:
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "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 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.
  • phil_coulibaly100@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Philippe Coulibaly" <phil_coulibaly200@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: phil_coulibaly100@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:16:23 +0000
Subject: Get back please...

Kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you.
Although we never met before,I have every reason to believe
that you are a highly respected personality,considering the fact
that I sourced your profile from a human resource profile database ,

My name is Philippe Coulibaly; I live in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire
in West Africa. I inherited the sum of USD$7,300,000.00
(Seven Million, Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)
from my father, But l am faced with a problem, it is
in respect of this problem that l am contacting you.

On the banks documents for the next of kin, my late
father appended a clause stating that: I the next of kin,
must attain the age of 30 years, before taking full control
of the Deposit; But, in the event of war or natural
disasters in Ivory Coast, the bank should honor a transfer
request from me which must be for the safety of the funds;
And in this case, I must have an investment manager, my
investment manager must not be an African or in Africa,
and the money must not be transferred to any African
country.

I am 19 years old now, but Ivory Coast is not a safe country
at this time because of War and spreads of Poisonous Toxic.
You will understand better with the publication below.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20083&Cr=ivoire&Cr1
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/ivory-coast-2003.htm
ap/index.htm

So I want the bank to release my money out of Ivory Coast to a
safe country, but the bank is insisting that l fulfill the
conditions put down by my late father. I know the bank is
only being business like, because there is no bank in the world
that would encourage a customer to take his money away.
This is actually the reason why l am writing you.

Please I would like you to become my investment manager,
because having an investment manager is the condition the
bank insist l have to meet before they would agree to
cooperate with me in my Funds release request. if you become
my investment manager, then the bank would execute my
transfer request.

I will give you more details when I receive your reply
Please reply to (phil_coulibaly100@yahoo.fr)

Sincerely,
Philippe Coulibaly

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