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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:
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "united state of america" (this email uses bad English)
  • "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.
  • +22508652322 (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.
  • reeves_idehen1985@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • idehen1985@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: reeves idehen <reves_idehen1985@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:59:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PLEASE HELP ME OUT VERY UNGENT...



>From Reeves Idehen.
Country: Ivory Coast:
City: Abidjan.
Tel:=A0+225 08652322
Private e-mail: reeves_idehen1985@yahoo.com
=A0
Hi Dear,=20

I got your contact information through this site and I decided to contact y=
ou, hoping that by God grace you will assist me out from my situation, afte=
r my 7good prayers and fasting over seeking for an oversees guardance.
I am Reeves Idehen (23years old) the only daughter of late chife=A0Peter=A0=
Idehen who was a famous and wealthy cocoa marchant based in Abidjan here,th=
e economic capital of Ivory Coast. I am seeking for your urgent attention t=
o help me transfer the sum of (US$6,500,000.00 ) SIX MILLION FIVE HUNDRED T=
HOUSAND UNITED STATE OF AMERICAN DOLLARS into your bank account for an inve=
stment purposes, such as real estates management and stock markerts. I=A0ag=
ree that 20% of this money will be for you as my foreign partner, in respec=
t to the provision of a foreign account, while,5% will be set aside for any=
expenses incurred=A0after the business and=A075% would be for me when I ar=
rive there in your country after the transfer.=20
=A0
NOTE: I have all the necessary documents in relation to this my fund deposi=
ted by my late father in the bank here,which I will e-mail to you if I hear=
from you again.=A0Please reply to my private e-mail Id address:=A0 (reeves=
_idehen1985@yahoo.com)=A0 or you mail me your mobile telephone number so th=
at I can call you and send you my photo,meanwhile this is=A0my telephone nu=
mber=A0+225 08652322.
=A0
Trusting to hear from you immediately,=20
Reeves Idehen.=0A=0A=0A

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