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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)
  • "% will be for you" (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 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.
  • michelguei55@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: miche.guei@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:48:59 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?DEAR=20=20=20BELOVED?=

IT IS ME MICHEL FROM ABIDJAN,
COTE D'IVOIRE

Dear Respectful One,

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
considering the recentpolitical
instabilities in my country, I believe one has to risk confiding in success
sometimes in life. There is this
huge amount of Twenty seven million U.S dollars($27,000,000.00)which my
late Daddy deposited in a bank here in Abidjan-Cote d'lvoire.However,I wish
to introduce myself, My name is Michel Guei, the son of late General Robert
Guei,the ex-military head of state of Ivory Coast,who was murdered along
with the interior minister during this present war in my country on the
19th of september 2002 (You can visit (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2269238.stm)

for complete review of this incident).

Now I have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe
enough outside Africa for security and political reasons. l want you to
help me stand as my partner this money in the bank can be transfer into
your personal bank account in your country for investment purposes on these
areas below :

1). Telecommunication
2). Transport Industry
3) Mechanised agriculture.

For your assistance to me to help me receive this money in your account
l will be pleased to offer to you 20% Of the total fund, and 20% will be
for you annually from the profit of the partnership company we are to open.


I await for your kind consideration to my plight.

Thanks and remain bless.
Michel Guei

REPLY TO MY PRIVITE EMAIL( michelguei55@yahoo.fr)

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