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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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 u.s 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)
  • "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 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.
  • +22507273663 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Board of Directors <bicici_bankbd11@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:40:24 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: KINDLY CONSIDER THIS REQUEST


MR. PITTON PATRICK
TEL: 00225 0727 3663

Website: www.bicici.org

My Dear
It's our pleasure to contact you for a business venture which one of our customer intend to establish in your country,Though the bank have not met with you before but we believe that it is not a risk to confiding in someone like you to succeed mostly in this kind of transaction .

There is this huge amount of money Twenty million,Seven hundred thousand U.S dollars($20.7 millionusd) which late Mr. Joseph Attiba BANED with us here in ABIDJAN before his untimely death, while his son is the neeficiary to the fund.

Now the Beneficiary Mr. Dannis Attiba to the fund has instructed us to look for a foreign partner on his behalf who will assist him to invest the said fund in viable ventures in your country New Zealand or any where safe enough outside Africa for security purposes.We want you to assist him to prive bank account where the fund will be transfered into in your country.

So if you can be of an assistance to us we will be pleased to offer to you 20% Of the total fund.
We anticipate your urgent response.
Thanks and God bless.
Sincerely
MR. PITTON PATRICK



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