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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:
  • "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.
  • frico234@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: outtara fabrice <frico234@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:06:59 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: please i need ur ugent reply


hello
My name is ouattara alphonse
My name is ouattara Alphonse I am a man I name myself will ouattara Alphonse I am refugié in ivory dimension I am in the town of Abidjan. I life in a district prequaire I very lost at the time of a violent rain I is nothing any more I sleep in the streets of Abidjan I lost all my parents at the time of a war I is only in my family I it is not more what to make on ; this ground but, I have still the hope to ask of the assistance I lost my work it September 19 1981en ethiopie. please I need assistance. please I await a continuation favorable to my call.
here my address frico234@yahoo.fr

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