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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:
  • "million 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)
  • "monrovia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan 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.
  • +22508011318 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Hidris Fofana <hidris_csfofana3@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <hidris_css_63foana@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:13:43 +0100
Subject: From Hidris



From Hidris Fofana Abidjan Cote D'ivoire West Africa Private Email Tele +225 08011318 Att: Hello Dear, I am writting you this letter with due respect and heart full of tears I need your help, I got your name and contact from a trust-worthy person who assured me of your integrity and that you will help me to transfer this money I am MR Hidris Fofana.the only Son of late Chief Cisse Fofana My father was a very Rich and wealthy Gold Trader in Monrovia the Capital of Liberia in West Africa,I want to let you know that my father was poisoned by his business associates while my mother died when i am little and my father took me so special because I am his only son. before the death of my father on 13th october 2005 in a hospital here in cote d'ivoire, he secretly told me that he has the sum of (USD $9.5 MILLION U.S DOLLARS ) which he deposited in a bank here in Cote D'ivoire. he made this money from the sales of Gold and Diamond, He also told me that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business patners while on a business trip with them and he instructed me to look for a foreign partner who will help me transfer this money out of republic of Cote Divoire and invest it for me, my purpose of contacting you is for you to help transfer this money to your country before this people who kill my father will kill me, This people who kill my father are after my life and they want to kill me and collect the this money from me, that is why I'm now hiding my self here in republic of Cote Divoire so that they will not see me, please i need your urgent help, Tell me how much percentage you will take in the total money of the $9.5, Million Dollars to help me in transfering this money to your account. But you have to assure me that you will help me fully to transfer the money to your account,l hope you will not betray the trust i have on you because this money is my only hope in this life ,and moreover you will also help me to come over to your country were i will settle down for my life and invest this money for me. I can assure you there is No Risk involve the money is an inheritance from my late father, my private mail contact I am waiting to hear from you, Hidris Fofana.
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