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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 u.s 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 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.
  • rosemdavidson@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <dkindrose7@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 14:46:22 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Miss Rose Davidson a Banker / Can You Do This Deal With Me?.

Hello My dear one,

Pls read this message and get back to me urgent .It Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into relationship with you. I have the believe you are a reputable, responsible and trustworthy person I can do relate with for a partner and by matter of trust I must not hesitate to confide in you
for this simple and sincere transaction.

My name is Miss Rose Davidson , I am 29 years old young lady and I am single, from Cote D'Ivoire in west African Region, am a banker here in ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE, I need a very good relationship with you and open minded so that we can work together as one family and have this golden furtune
that comes my way.

Really, we do not know each other before but, since the world is global village where one can be reached any where of his destination by the means of communication with the help of the world technology of today. Meanwhile, it was also after I went through your profile this today, that I decided
to contact you because of what l want to do with you.

My plans was that as soon as this transaction get through, I will resign from my work and come over to stay in your country and invest.Your status is good enough, due to the country you come from and I have the believe that if we can understand our self, we will achieve something good from this
project. My communicateing with you this was very please to me and I don't want to wait due to the urgency this transaction needed.

In my department i discovered an abandoned sum of $ 9.5m US dollars ( Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars ). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer,Mr.Morris Thompson 61 years,of Fairbanks, Alaska America who died on January 31st 2000 with Alaska Airlines Flight
261.with family,You can as well confirm it by yourself through under stated Website of the incident:

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

Since we got this information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot apply for it as the next of kin, assocaite or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed
next of kin or relation died along side with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this transaction proposal to you, so that the fund will be release to you as the next of kin. Since nobody is coming for the claiming of this fund and I don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. Pls, this is
an oppotunity for you and me.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclamed after seven years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund.

The request of a foreigner as next of kin or assocaite in this transcation is needed occasioned by the fact that the customer is foriegner and I am a citizen of this town and a member of the bank, I cannot stand as his next of kin or assocaite.

Please my dear, If you are capable to handle this project with me, contact me urgently as soon as you recieve this message so that I will go into details and tell you what you have to do.

Don't fail the send me your reply through my private email address for security reasons : rosemdavidson@yahoo.fr

I am waiting to hear from you.

Remain the same to who cares with love.

Miss Rose Davidson.

THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING .







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