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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:
  • "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 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.
  • +22521 (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.
  • dimitri.franck@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Dimitri Franck <dimitri.franck@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:20:50 +0100 (CET)
Subject: hello


Hello

We write you this letter initially to greet you and for the love of god you ask for a help.
Indeed we are forty young men and women who makes leave the Church of Witness of Jéhovah (E.T.J) our goal is to study, learn to the children deminues from 12 to 16 with reading the bible and knowing our lord. For that we need a room to study and learn with these children. But we do not have the means to build this room. We you request ourselves for the love of god to help us to build this room


Receive our best greetings
E.T.J: the Church of Witness of Jéhovah BP 10 ABIDJAN 01
Such: (+225) 21.565.926
Fax: (+225) 21.566.374
Secretary: Mr. Dimitri Franck
Email: dimitri.franck@yahoo.fr




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