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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:

• 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 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.
  • +22508555161 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: bill robert <mr_b_robert@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: billrobert7@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:49:46 +0100 (CET)
Subject: FOLLOW UP TO MY PROPOSAL. BILL ROBERT.


Dear Sir,

Thanks for mail, I assure you that this mail is real. it is neither a spam nor have anything to do with scam. I am sorry to hear that you have fall victem to scam but I assure you that with do deligence you will recover what ever you have lost in the hands of those bad people. May be it was for this reason that God made it possible for us to be in this contact.
I am Hon. Bill Robert from Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire I represent our community local miners cooporation. For the sales of all the quantity of GLD within all surrounding communities. With regards to your interest in our Gold Dust. I will send to you the picture of what I have in stock, at the same time the picture of our mining site for you to see how my local miners suffers because of lack of mining equipments.

Before now we had a Frenchman that was selling our Gold Dust outside Africa , but his project with the OUNCI. [United Nations] has expired and he has gone back to his home country. We now seek your company's help in shipping out our load abroad for sale if you will not be able to buy all our stock. We have 750 kilograms of Gold-Dust of 22 carat and 98.9/100% purity at the price of (US$7,500) per kilo that is our bush price. You are free to come and inspect and confirm our Gold-Dust in international refinery here before shipment. Upon satisfactory inspection, we will reach on a particular agreements on sales and terms of payments.

If we finally agree on the conditions, your company will become our Mandate /Sales Representative outside Africa or a particular region. Kindly contact me immediately either with my e-mail or through my phone +225 08555161 Feel free to reach me for any further clarification. Any document you need will be faxed to you as time goes on and I want you to send me your direct Tel/ Fax number also note that we normally ship our Gold through a Transit company here that have all the authorised licence for shipment, so as soon as finalise negotiations, I will ask the transit company to contact you for the shipment looking forward to hear from you immediately.
Best regards
Hon. Bill Robert



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