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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  • alimadawasazizi@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Alima Dawas <alimadawas01@yahoo.com.au>
Reply-To: alimadawasazizi@c13-ss-2-lb.cnet.com
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:31:33 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Waiting for your respond


From: Miss A. D. Azizi.
Telephone:
From Abidjan, Ivory Coast West Africa.

Dear sir / Madam,

Complement of the day

I wish to solicit your help in migrating to your country and investing my funds. In a brief introduction, I am Miss Alima Dawas the only Daughter of late Mr Dawas Azizi My late father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant / Gold dealer based in Boake the Northan part of Ivory Coast.He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outgoing to discuss on a business deal. After my mother’s death on the 21st October 1998, my father took me so special to him in the sense that most of his business information is being detailed to me on trust.

Before the death of my father on 29th March 2004 in a private hospital in Ivory Coast , he secretly called me on his bedside and informed me about the sum of Ten Million five Hundred Thousand Dollars ( US$10,500.000.00 ) he lodged in a Security company in Ivory Coast. He told me that he used my name as the next-of-kin in making the deposit.

His advise is that I should seek for a Allah fearing person who would assist me to retrieve the box from the security company and transfer the money out of Africa and use it for investment purpose. I hereby decided to write to you for an assistance to get out the box and transfer the funds to your account in your country for a joint investment while I continue my education.
Anticipating to hear from you soon.you can contact me through my privacte email address ( alimadawasazizi@myway.com )

I ,m awaiting for your urgent response.

Yours faithfully,

Miss A. Dawas.


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