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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan 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.
  • stdav5@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Steve Davis" <stdav133@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: stdav5@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:33:02 -0800
Subject: From Steve Davis.

From Steve Davis.

My Dear,

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to
establish in your country. Though I have not met with you before but I
believe, one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.
There is this amount of Eight Million Five hundred US Dollars
($8.500.000.00) which my late father Dr Willams Davis, deposited with a
security company here in Abidjan Capital city of Cote d'Ivoire which he
wanted to used for his political reason in our Country before he was
assassinated.

Now I have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe
enough outside Africa for security and political reasons. I want you to
help me stand as my late father foreign buisness partner to claim the money
from the security which will be deliever to you through diplomatic shipment
to your address which you will provide for the transaction and to enable you
plan for the investment in your Country.

I will like to invest part of the money into these three investment in your
Country but, if there is any other business that is better than what I am
suggestion, I will be very glad to follow your advice.

1). Real estate
2). The transport industry
3). Hotel Investment.

If it is your wish to be of an assistance to me I will be pleased to offer
to you 15% Of the total fund while the balance will be invested by you.
please kindly contact me via personal email address.
( stdav5@yahoo.com)

I await your soonest response.

Respectfully yours,

Steve Davis

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