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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:
  • ",000,000" (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 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.
  • audyapi@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: audrey yapi <missaudreyyapi11@yahoo.com.au>
Reply-To: audyapi@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:24:40 +1000 (EST)
Subject: message


05,Rue des la victoire Adjame
Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire.
Dear ,
I humbly solicit for your help,and permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you.Iam Miss Audrey Yapi 22yrs, the only child of late Mr/mrs Robert Yapi, It is disheartnening to tell you that iam an orphan.
My father was cocoa merchant based in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote D'Ivoire before he was poisoned to death by my uncles out of envy and greed.Since the death of my father my uncles have succeeded in dispossessing me of everything my father laboured for.
Before the death of my father on 29th April 2002. He told me that he has a sum of $10,000,000 ( Ten million, United States Dollars) packeged in a mettalic box and deposited with a Security Compagnie here in Abidjan, and that he declared and registered the box as containing FAMILY VALUABLES.
The security company does not know the real content of the box, please we should not let the security company to know the true content of the box.
I am sincerely seeking your assistance to help me to claim and lift this box to your country as my Foreign Partner for investment purposes.I am willing to offer you 20% of the total sum as compensation for your efforts at the end of the transaction.
I would want you to show your readiness to help me by giving me your 1. Full names 2.Telephone number 3.Your resident address 4.Occupation 5.Age.
As soon as i receive this information i will put you in contact with the security to proper details.
Thanks and God Bless.
Best regards.
Miss Audrey Yapi (Please reply me in my private email:
audyapi@yahoo.fr



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