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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "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 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.
  • rose1donald1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Rose Donald <rose3donald3@yahoo.com.mx>
Reply-To: rose1donald1@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:33:10 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Greetings From: Ms. Rose Donald.


Greetings From: Ms. Rose Donald.
Address: Rue 12 Bp Cocody,
Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire.
Hello,
It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration, since I cannot be able to see you face to face at first. Being the only daughter of my father, late Mr. Frank Donald from Sierra Leone Africa (WA) I am 20 years of age.
My father was limited liability Diamond and Gold merchant in Freetown Sierra Leone before his untimely death after his business trip to Abidjan to negotiate on a good investment business he wanted to invest in Abidjan.
A week after he came back from Abidjan, he got an accident with my mother of which my mother died instantly but my father died after five days in a private hospital on that faithful afternoon.
He single handed me over the key of the box and the deposit certificate and instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business partner for my life time investment abroad with the money.
Now, I have succeeded in locating the security company here in Abidjan also confirmed the items with most honest and confidentiality.
Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help me lift this money out from Abidjan to your safe account abroad so that we should invest it in any meaningful lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope in life.
I am willing to offer you 10% of the total fund if only you can help me out of my present predicament.
Waiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities of this transaction.
Before my father died, he disclosed to me that he deposited the sum of $8.500; 000.00 US Dollars (Eight Million, Five Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars) in a security company here in Abidjan the capital city of Cote d’Ivoire.
He said that the money was meant for his Diamond and Gold Company that he wanted to establish in Abidjan though, according to my father, he deposited the money in a Trunk Metallic box but declared it as vital family belongings.
Please you can reach me at my private email address at (rose1donald1@yahoo.com).
Yours sincerely,
Ms. Rose Donald.


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