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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 state 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "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.
  • brighterrrr_williams@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Bright Williams <brighterrrr_williams@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:19:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: BRIGHT WILLIAMS


From Miss Bright Williams
Avenue 16 Rue 13nn
Treichville Abidjan
Ivory coast
PLS REPLY @ brighterrrr_williams@yahoo.com


My Dear Please Permit me to inform you of my mind, Because I have make up my mind to contact you through this media after going through your profile in http://www.smutvibes.com, then i decided to contact you for assisting me as a foreign business relation to my late father.

My Name is Miss Bright Williams, i was born to the family of Mr. Williams Okeke.and my father Name is Thompson he was a very wealthy gold and cocoa merchant who based in ACCRA and ABIDJAN respectively, and my mother's name is Sheila.and I am there only child.well when i was a kid i went to a private schools and things was going on well for me and my parents till when i was in high school when my mother died on the 21ST october 2000 , My father took me so special because i am motherless. and he shower all his love on me.

My father got dead recently.but before the death of my father on the 12th December 2004 in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he called me secretly to his bed side and told me that he deposited the sum of ten million United State Dollars.($10, 000 000 00) in one bank here in Abidjan the capital city of my country Cote D'Ivoire for investment puposes.

He also explained to me that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business partner and that i should seek for foreign partner in a country of my choice where i would investment this money if it happens that i could not see him anymore.

Plesae, i am honourably soliciting your kind assistance as follows.
1) To assist me and stand as my father's foreign business relation to get this money transfered to you for investment purposes to your country.
2) To serve as the guardian of these fund,since i am too small to handle such amount.
3)To make arrangement for me in your country to continue my educational career and to procure me a residential permit in your country.

I am inclined to offer you 15% of the total sum as a mode of compensation for your effort after the successful transfering of this money into any of your nominated account.

I am expecting to hear from you immediately after you might have goten this mail and please fowared to me your persnal informations at the same time as soon as you reply i will send to you the fund deposit certificate which my late father use to deposit the money and also give to you the bank contact where the money is deposited for you to contact them after that you comfirm to me your williness and to comfirm to me that you are not going to betraled me at last when my money will be transfer in to your account please if you know that you are trustful then respond so that we can do this together as i am only 22 years and will like to explain to you that you are going to take care of this money and the investment until i finish my education which is the most inportant thing to me now.

God bless you.
Bright Williams
PLS REPLY@ brighterrrr_williams@yahoo.com




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