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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "account in your country or any safer place" (a common phrase found 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.
  • +22501817053 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • i_s_obodo1@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Rose Obodo <rose_10innocent@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: i_s_obodo1@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:40:05 +0100 (CET)
Subject: rose


Hi,
Pls permmit my introduction, i am Rose, I came across your profile while online few munites ago searching for a friend. so I decided to communicate with you. Can we be friends? pls i would like to require your advise if you can be of our help, i and my brother wants to invest to your country but we are afraid since we lost out the contact of our father's friend.we are heirs to this money USD 15 Million which he kept for the importation of processing and industrial machine. I want you to do me
a favour to receive this funds to a safe account in your country or any safer place as the beneficiary. I have plans to do investment in your country, like real estate and industrial production. This is my reason for writing to you.
my contacts are: i_s_obodo1@hotmail.com +225 01817053.
Rgds
Rose


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