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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:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • tessy_boe104@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mary Mbazizi <mary_mbazizi102@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:33:42 +0100 (CET)
Subject: your kind assistance pls


Miss Mary mbazizi,
ave.residance rue 7
Abidjan Cote d'ivoire West Africa.

Dear respected one,

I came across your e-mail and I decided to request for your confidential assistance. My name is Miss Mary mbazizi. I am writing you from Cote D'ivoire. I am 21years old kenyan and single. as you are aware of the political crisis in kenya my country that have killed many and left many homeless Though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in succeed sometimes in life. There is this huge amount of Three million five Hundred thusand U.S dollars ($3,500.000) which my late Father kept with a Fiduciary Fund Holder in Abidjan before his death. This fund was kept in this organisation bacause of the crisis here and it is safe. My late father was a businessman but the only problem is that he was into kenyan politics. and now that they have killed him so i was able to sacape to abidjan with the help of american non governmental organisations Now I have decided to invest this money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security
and political reasons. I want you to help assist me so that we retrieve these fund from the Fiduciary Fund Holders and transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment. You can decide which lucrative area you will invest the fund. Can I trust you to keep this fund safe when it gets to you? If you can be of an assistance to me I will be pleased to offer to you 15% Of the total fund. I await your soonest response. Please send your telephone number when responding.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Mary mbazizi
and you can contact me with this email tessy_boe104@yahoo.ca



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