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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:
  • "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)
  • "urgent assistance" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • ammeididris_4u@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ammed idris <ammeidris_4u@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: ammed.ris_4u@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:55:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dear lovely one


Dear Lovely One

Please permite me to introduce my self to you , my name is Ammed Idris, i am 20 years old, and the only child of Late Mohammed Idris, He was a famous cocoa business man based here in Abidjan, the Economic Capital of Cote D'ivoire.

I am seeking for your urgent assistance to help me transfer the sum of (US$2.8) Two Million Eight Hundred Thousand U.s Dollars into your Bank Account. As i have read your profile and seen that we belong to the same Islamic Religion, so that is why i contacted you for help. This money was been deposited by my late father before he died, and he used my name as his nest of kin. for i am his only successor.

Please, i am offering you 15% of the total ammount deposited as a mode of compersation for your assistance and kindness when this transfer has been transfered successfully into your account,and i want to assure you that i have all it takes as the neccessary and guniue documents as regards to this fund, deposited by my late father, Please dont fail to ask any relivant questions for your clearance and more understanding as regards to this tranfer.

Also i want you to email me immediately you receive this my mail so that i will send you more important details concerning this transfer and also my pictures, so that you will see and know whom i am.

Please, contact me through my private email address for confidential and security reasons. (ammeididris_4u@yahoo.com)

Thanks for anticipation


Regards


Ammed Idris







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