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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:
  • "million 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)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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 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.
  • derrickcollins2007@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "derrick collins22" <derrickcollins22@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: derrickcollins2007@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:19:47 +0100
Subject: I'm waiting for your urgent reply.

From:Derrick Collins.
RUE 25 MACCORY
ABIDJAN-COTE D'IVOIRE.
WEST AFRICA

Dear,

My name is Derrick Collins from Cote d`ivoire West Africa. I am 17 years old
and a student. Please I would like you to assist me as urgent as you
can,before they kill me.My father is a wealthy cocoa merchant.Trouble began
early last two years when my father's associates began suspecting that my
father is not giving proper accounts of all the tonnes of cocoa being
cultivated by local farmers in some villages.

This mistrust deepens between Oct-Sept, 2005 when they discovered a very
large some of money my father deposited with a Bank here in ABIDJAN-COTE
D'IVOIRE (FORMALLY IVORY COAST in West Africa. As a result of this discovery
and the envy on the money he was poisioned by his associates.At his
hospital bed ,he revealed to me the reasons of his sickness and directed me
where to get the documents of the said deposit which he made on my name as
the next of kin,being the only child.

He advised me that in case he die, that I should not stay in this country
Abidjan Cote d`ivoire, because his associates will equally kill me hence my
mother had died five years ago of breast cancer.He also instructed that if
he dies, I should look for a foreign partner who will help me to transfer
the money out of this place (Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire), to his account and the
person will help me to invest the money in hi/her country. Based on this, I
had to contact you bearing in mind that you will be human enough to protect
my life. My father finally died on the 5th of june,2006 and since then, I
was out of school and went into hiding because of my father's asociates. All
the relevant documents of the $6.000,000.(Six Million United States
Dollars) that was deposited in a Commercial Bank by my late father, are
with me now.

I will give you 15% of the total money, if you can help me in transferring
it into your Account, for onward investment in your country. Please
contact me immediately with your telephone and Fax numbers to enable me
send you all necessary documents regards the money before they will kill
me.I will also give you the bank contact so that you will contact them by
yourself for transfering the money in your account abroad. It is a risk free
transaction.

I'm waiting for your urgent reply.
Best regards.sincerely
Derrick Collins.
derrickcollins2007@yahoo.fr

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