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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "await your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "with absolute secrecy" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • lucksonmady68@yahoo.com
  • lucksonmady@webmail.co.za

Fraud email example:

From: "Luckson Mady" <lucksonmady@newsgroup.hk>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:41:05 +0800
Subject: Your Urgent Respond Needed

I have decided to contact you by E-mail due to the urgency of this
transaction. Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. My name is
Mr Luckson Mady, the Personal Assistance to the interior minister Emile
Boga Doudou of Cote'Ivoire(Ivory coast) who was killed in the September
19,2002 mutiny that equally lead to the death of former military junta
Robert Guei. This you can find on web page. CNN.com - Ivory Coast Rebel
Uprising Spreads
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/09/21/ivory/index.html

However,let it not be surprising to you that I am contacting you through
this media.Although,I have not gotten any Previous correspondence with you.I
am personally contacting you out of my desire to save my and that of late
master hard earned wealth for a better life of the families, following the
political change in Cote D'Ivoire. During the tenure of my late Boss, he had
planned that immediately he completes his time in office, that we shall
leave the shore of Africa to any Western Country to live the rest of our
lives as the political/economy of Africa is very unstable for any business
investment.He was backing up his plans with some serious accumulation of
wealth though CASH and he had secured the sum of $2.5m.(Two million five
hundred thousand United States Dollars) before this ugly incidence of
September 19, 2002.

Following his sudden death,I am soliciting your assistance to provide me
with a foreign bank account,which can be an account with zero credit balance
so that I can arrange for the transfer of the afore-mentioned sum in
pretense that you were a foreign partner to my late master. Be reminded that
this transaction is 100% risk free.

I hereby agree to compensate you with 30% of the total sum while 65% will be
for me and my family to invest in your country and a further 5% for any
expenses that both side may come up in the process of this very important
transaction. In the same trend, for the security of this transaction, all
correspondence should be via Email: lucksonmady68@yahoo.com or
lucksonmady@webmail.co.za only for now as my movement are being monitored
at the moment as the political situation is still very tense.you should
however treat this transaction with absolute secrecy.
Thank you for your anticipated co-operation while I await your urgent
response with your full contact details.

Best regards,

Luckson.




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