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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• 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.
  • ugoloclarice@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3augoloclarice@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: "Clarice Ugolo" <clariceugolo3000@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 08:21:47 +0000
Subject: Miss Clarice Ugolo


Miss Clarice Ugolo
Abidjan cote d'lvoire
West Africa.

Hello,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship
with you as your profile pushed me to have confident in you and i know that
you will not let me down.

I am miss Clarice Ugolo the only daughter of late Mr and Mrs Kone Ugolo,my
father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan ,the economic capital of
lvory coast before he was piosoned to death by his business associates on
one of their outing to discus on a business deal.

When my mother died on the 21st october 1994, my father took me special
because i am motherless but before the death of my father on 30th september
2005 in a private hospital here in Abidjan , he secretly called me on his
bedside and told me that he has a sum of $12.500.000 (twelve million, five
hundred thousand dollars) left in a suspense account in a local bank here in
Abidjan,that he used my name as his only child for the next of kin in
deposit of the fund.
He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth and some huge
amount of money his business associates supposed to balance him from the
deal they had that he was piosoned by his business associates, that i should
seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of my choice where i
will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose.He also adviced
meto be kind to less previlledged people.

I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.

1) To provide a bank account where this money would be transferred to.
2) To serve as the guardian of this fund since i am a girl of 22 years.
Moreover, i am willing to offer you 10% of the sum as compensation for
effort input after the successful transfer of this fund to your designate
account overseas.

Anticipating to hear from you as soon as possible through my private
email:ugoloclarice@yahoo.fr <email%3Augoloclarice@yahoo.fr>

Thanks and best regards,
Clarice Ugolo

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