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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  
• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22501618509 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: carlton carew dan <evang-carew01@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <evan_carlton_carew1@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 18:28:22 +0200
Subject: Calvary Greetings from Christ to you,



Dearest in Christ,




Greetings to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
My name is Evang. Carlton Carew Dan, we represent an organisation to help kick prostitution out of the world named " LIBERTY IN CHRIST ". ( 2 Corinthians 4:1- 4 ).



I will like you to know the purpose of contacting you, it is for helping the less previledge of the society and for helping kick out prostitution out of this planet of ours and make it a better place by helping the less previledge to be useful to the society rather than being a burden to the government and the risk of the society, for the idle mind is the devil's workshop.


Prostitution is getting out of hand in this planet of our's, most of the ladies give birth to children and dump them outside for the children to die that is how their hearts has been so harden, most of them do not know how to train there child which make them useless in the society, some of them thieves, murderers, vagabons, etc, .


There are crimes and different kinds of violence and problems cursed due to idleness and the society is finding this a problem creating jobs for the youths, for there are lots of people here in our society who do not have the previledge of having good upbringings during there childhood there might have been a problem from maybe there parents or there environment, we are here to help correct this by helping the society and government to reduce this load which is burdensome by helping the society by organising programmes which will benefit individuals to help them find there potentials by the followings;

1. By calling them back to God ( Jer. 8:4, 2Cro.7:14 )
2. By teaching them handiwork which will benefit them ( Deut. 30:9,10 )
3. Providing facilities to help them establish for themselves
4. Giving them sound education
5. Scholarships.
6. Good hospitals for the less previledge
7. Jobs opportunities
etc.

The organisation is a christain organisation willing to make all these come through by your help if you can be of help to donate generously to us so as to make these programme successful.
We are using these means to seek for funds, we are apealing whatever you can give is acceptable by us and the good Lord be with you always.
We will also use this to appologise for the way and manner of reaching you, please accept our appology and help touch someone's life positively.

He who close his ear to the cry of the poor, also he will cry and will not be heared, you can help us financially or by kind in anyway you feel you can help.

You can make your donation by westernunion or money gramme with the following information and sending back the information of which you sent the donations via this email;


This is my contact : NAME : CARLTON CAREW DANADDRESS: 2 PLATEAUX ABIDJANCITY : ABIDJANZIP CODE :00225 COUNTRY : COTE D'IVOIRE
Phone No :+225-01-61-85-09

Evang. Carlton Carew Dan.

This is no scam, for African's have created a bad names for themselves on the internet, I would not be a party to scam you, my conscience will judge me for that and the love of God in me will not allow that.
Nothing is too small or big, you can even pray for us, Please you can send western union slip or money gramm slip via email on how you send the donation with the name above, as you are led by the Holy Spirit.
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