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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:
  • "the consignment" (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)
  • "cotonou" (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 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.
  • agatha_denice@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "agatha denice guei" <agathaguei@gala.net>
Reply-To: agatha_denice@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:24:41 +0100
Subject: Assistance/Investment


Hello,

Let not my mail come to you as a surprise, I am contacting you based on the
trust and confidence I reposed on you that you can be capable of executing
this transaction for me on a mutual benefit and I know you will not betray
me by the grace of God/ Allah.I am Miss Agatha and my kid brother Denis Guei
(JR) the Daughter& son of Gen. Robert Gay, who was the former military
president of my country Cote D;Ivoire. our late father was murdered on the
18-09-2002 while attempting to gain power through a failedcoup d;etat.

I confide in you to disclose my late fathers; wealth acquired while in
office as the formal president of my country Cote D;lvoire Abidjan.The sum
of $25.5M.USD (Twenty five million five hundred thousand dollars only)
deposited into a security house abroad(EUROPE) for safe-keepig by my late
father, without making the real contents of the consignment known to the
security company.And the certificate of deposit of this fund was given to me
as a personal effects deposited in the security company in Abroad.I am
soliciting for your assistance in securing,investment/management of this
fund because I am a young Boy & girl with no experience in investment and
management .Proceedures :

1. I have already made a contact with Security Company in Abroad that can
conveniently convey the consignment to your destination if you devote to
assist me claim the consignment from the security company to your designated
address via your special arrangement.2. You are required to furnish me with
the following:
i. Your full name
ii. Home, address, tel & fax n°
With the above informations, I shall commence the procedures for the
transfer of the fund to you, by sending you the proof document concerning
this fund/boxes for your view.Before we can commence on this transaction,an
there must be a draft agreement which will bind both of us together for the
safty of my fund/boxes.I therefore advise you to treat this with utmost
secrecy and urgency by reaching me through my email address hence l am in
refugee camp in cotonou
republic of benin under the protection of the Government of Benin .

I await hearing from you urgently through my alternative email address:(
agatha_denice@yahoo.fr )
Thanks and GOD bless you as you help us

Sincerely yours
Miss Agatha and my kid brother Denis Guei

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