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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:
  • "transfer into your account" (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)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
• 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.
  • rosebamba1@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Rose Bamba" <rosebamba2@hotmail.fr> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:50:51 +0200
Subject: RE: HOW ARE YOU TODAY?

Dearest,

Compliment of the day, I’m Miss Rose Bamba, 22yrs from Ivory Coast. I picked interest on you after glancing through your short profile, I deemed it necessary to disclose this important issue. I lost my parents during the rebel attacked in our counttry. Before the death of my father, he had an account with a bank here in Ivory Coast, where he made a deposit of US$1,500,000 ( One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).

This money was for the purchase of cocoa procession machines and development of another factory, unfortunately he did not meet his target before his untimely death.
Why I contacted you, due to the agreement he had with the bank during deposit, I’ve been denied total access to the money, the bank Manager told me precisely that the money was deposited in a suspense fixed account with a clause attached to it for onward transfer into a foreign account.

That the bank will follow the agreement written and signed by both (the bank and my father). I was advised to look for a foreign account where the money can be transferred before I can have access to it. Since security here cannot be guaranteed besides, I’ve lost my father, I hereby ask you to do me a favour by standing as my late father’s foreign business partner and the beneficiary of the money to enable the bank effect the transfer into your account. I have plans to invest this money in continuation with the investment vision of my late father, but not in this place again rather in your country.

I have the vision of going into real estate and industrial production, please if you are willing to assist me as the only daughter, indicate your interest in replying soonest. Email address rosebamba1@hotmail.fr

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation,

Yours,
Miss. Rose Bamba.

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