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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:
  • "this transaction is real and never a joke" (this phrase is often used in inheritance scams such as next of kin or https://www.419scam.org/419-murdered-businessman.htm">orphan scams. )
  • "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)
  • "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.
  • jamesedward200@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: james edward <jamesedward200@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:36:14 +0100 (CET)
Subject: FROM: JAMES EDWARD WE NEED YOU TO HELP ME OUT.


ASYLUM CAMP ABIDJAN
FROM: JAMES EDWARD
TEL:00225 07104834
email;jamesedward200@yahoo.fr

Dear Sir,
CONFIDENTIAL,

I am JAMES EDWARD the only son of late former Director of finance, CHIEF VINCENT E. EDWARD Sierra-Leone diamond and mining corporation. I must confess my agitation is real, and my words is my bond, in this proposal. My late father diverted this money meant for purchase of ammunition, for my country, during the peak of disastrous civil war in my country, now he has deposited the money with a BANK here in Abidjan, where I am residing under political asylum with my younger sister Mary .

Now the war in my country is over with the help of ECOMOG soldiers, the present government of Sierra Leone has revoked the passport of all officers who served under the former regime and now ask countries to expel such person at the same time freeze their account and confiscate their assets, it is on this note that I am contacting you, all I need from you is to furnish me with your bank particulars:

1) Account name
2) Account number
3) Bank address, telephone and fax number For you to assist me transfer this money in your private bank account, the said amount is (fifteen Million Dollars) $15Million.I am compensating you with 20% of the total amount.

Now all my hope is banked on you and I really want to invest this money in your country, were their is stability of Government, political and economic welfare. Honestly I want you to believe that this transaction is real and never a joke. My late father CHIEF VINCENT E. EDWARD gave me the photocopies of the certificate of deposit issued to him by the BANK on the date of deposit, for you to be clarify because,

I do not expose my self to anybody I see, I believe that you are able to keep this transaction secret for me because this money is the hope of my life, it is important.
And my late father used me the only son as the beneficiary / next of kin on the day of deposit and also told me I need an assistance of a foreigner with a legitimate bank Account abroad who will stand as co-beneficiary and partner abroad to ensure a successful hitch free transfer of the fund abroad.

Please call me immediately after you must have gone through my message.Feel free and make it urgent. Please try and negotiate for me some profitable blue chip investment opportunities which is risky free which I can invest with this money when it is transferred to your account, personally I am interested in estate management and hotel business,please advise me.
Thanks and God bless

Best regards

JAMES EDWARD



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