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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:
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• 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.
  • +22566184154 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • rev.johnson_emmanuel@priest.com

Fraud email example:

From: Isabel Kone <isabel_kone@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:58:30 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Good news.


Dearest Adelheide.
Good Morning and how are you doing today? Hope everything is going well with you there? I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner Mr. Kumar from Delhi India.

Presently i'm in India for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. meanwhile, I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how. Which i consider the will of God. Dearest Adelheide you are really wonderful carring person whom i desire to stay with but due to unforseen circumstances we're unable to achieve our plans.

Now contact the pastor i use to tell you about him in Cote d'ivoire whom i enploy to settle the problem:

Reverend Pastor Johnson Emmanuel.
International Faith Ministry Church Abidjan.
Avenue 6 Rue du Commerce -Plateau / Abidjan Cote
d’Ivoire
Contact Person Rev. Johnson Emmanuel.
OfficeTel:+225 66184154
Email: rev.johnson_emmanuel@priest.com

Ask him to send you the total of ( $65,000 Sixty Five thousand united state dollars ) draft which I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. Please accept the little money because Mr. Kumar did not allow me to compensate the way i wish to but please accept this from me.

so feel free and get in touched with the Reverend Pastor Johnson Emmanuel and instruct him where to send the draft to.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at that time.

At the moment, I’m very busy here because of the investment projects and my new school which me and the new partner Mr Kumar are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the pastor on your behalf to receive that money in Draft, so feel free to get in touch with him, he will send the Draft to you without any question.

Yours Faithfully And Lovely Girl.
Isabel Kone.


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