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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:
  • ",000,000" (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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: charlescaleb83 <charlescaleb83@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: mrcharlescaleb2@yahoo.cn
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:55:35 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From: Charles Caleb. Call Me With This + 225 66 87 86 56

From Charles Caleb
Abidjan, Cote d` Ivoire (Former Ivory Coast) West Africa.
Phone:00225 668 786 56
My Dear
It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration, since I can not be able to see you face to face at first,Please i need your help. Being the only son of my father, late CHEIF. JOSEPH CALEB from REPUBLIC OF KENYA AFRICA (I am 22 years of age.
My father was limited liability Cocoa and Gold merchant in MOMBASA KENYA before his untimely death. After his business trip to Abidjan -Cte dIvoire, to nagociate on a cocoa and gold business he wanted to invest in Abidjan - Cte dIvoire. A week after he came back from Abidjan, he got an accident
with my mother of which my mother died instantly but my father died after five days in a private hospital on that faithful afternoon, I didnt know that my father was going to leave me after I had lost my mother, but before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die.
He my father, (MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he disclosed to me that he deposited sum of $18,000,000,00 US Dollars (EIGHTEEN MILLION US DOLLAR) with a bank here in Abidjan - Cte dIvoire.

Now I have succeeded in locating the bank here in Abidjan - Cte dIvoire also confirmed the items with most honest and confidentiality. Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help me lift this money out from Abidjan to your safe account abroad so that we should invest it in any meaningful
lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope in life.
I am willing to offer you 20% of the total fund if only you can help me out of my present predicament.
I await your immediate response coupled with your direct telephone and fax numbers for easy communications.
NOTE:PLEASE REPLY TO MY PRIVATE E-MAIL BOX BELOW; Private E-mail:(mrcharlescaleb2@yahoo.cn)
Phone:00225 668 786 56
Yours sincerely
Mr. Charles Caleb.





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