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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:
  • "the consignment " (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)
• 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.
  • davidbouga@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR DAVID B. BOUGA" <davidbouga002@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <davidbouga@excite.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:14:47 -0400
Subject: DEAR BELOVED SIR/MA:ASSISTANT PROPOSAL OF $15 MILLION US DOLLAR
TRANSACTION!!!



Attenion:Sir/Ma, I am Mr,Bouga David from Bouake Ivory Coast in west Africa., I got your esteemed contact in my search for an honest and trustworthy person who could handle this magnitude of an impending business transaction. During the crises in my country my father Dr.Johnson Bouga was shot death in his house on 23rd September 2003. Before my father deied he Deposited some (Amount $15M) With One Security Company in DUBIA, He was the interior minister of Ivory Coast Before he deied. I am Now in Accra to recover this (Fund) so i want you to help me cliam this fund. The money was put in a consignment for safekeeping and the consignment containing the funds declared as" African Arts and family treasure" to the management of the security company for security reasons. At the moment, I am soliciting for your assistance to arrange a domiciliary account in your name as my late father's buisness partner to make way for the transfer and resettlement of this fund in a politically stable country for a viable investment after we must have got it transferred from the security company to your account. I Demand your informations on investment opportunities in your country.I promise you for your assistance a reward of 30% of the above mentioned amount, while 5% will be for contingencies. I.E. expenses that incurred during the process of this transaction either locally or internationally. Please I demand your honest God fearing one to help me, hoping to develop a very good business relationship with you. And do send me your phone number, fax, and postal address with any identification card or your passport to my private box davidbouga@excite.com Thanks and God bless you.Mr,Bouga David.
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