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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:
  • "can i completely trust you?" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • +22566143883 (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.
  • samueltyler@mixmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Tyler Waithaka" <twaithaka@fastwebmail.it>
Reply-To: twaithaka@terra.com
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 22:53:56 +0200
Subject: Dear Sir/s


Dear Sir/s,

As you read this mail my desire is that you find a place in your
heart to assist me faithfully in this proposition. I am 24yrs old Tyler
Waithaka from Kenya, the only child of Col. (Rtd.) E. Waithaka, Chief
Executive Kenya Association of Air Operators and owner of Star Alliance
Airways, now sold to Kenya Airways.



It is sad to say that my both parent was killed last year July 1, 2007 in
our family house in Nairobi by armed robbers, though their death was linked
or rather suspected to have been master minded by Mr. Titus Naikuni, the
Group Managing Director & CEO Kenya Airways who purchased our Airline
Company under the governance of President Kibaki, but is only God who knows
the truth.



Now the reason for my contacting you is to seek your advice and guidelines
for investment in your country, this however is not mandatory nor will I in
any manner compel you to honour against your will. I had this money
£25.500.000 (Twenty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in my
possession which I inherited from my late parents.



Looking at the circumstances behind my parent's death and the ongoing
political unrest here in Ivory Coast where I have been taking refuge after
the brutal murder of my parents, I have determined to move overseas with
this (£25.500.000) for investment purposes under your guidance since I am
only 24years and I can not go back to Kenya, so I am worried about:

(a) Since we have not met in person before, can I completely trust you?

(b) Can you honestly help me and treat me like your own son?

(c) What is your profession, and in what lucrative business or profession in
your country can you suggest that we invest this money?



Please If you are interested in this proposition for your any assistance I
will be willing to offer 25% of the total amount, then you will be
representing me in the bank as my late father business partner, to enable
the release and retrieval of the (£25.500.000) from the bank into our any
nominated bank account. Please contact me on my telephone number as giving
below for any discussion, and please any delay in your reply will give me
room in sourcing for another person for this same purpose.



Thanking you in advance for your considerations into this proposition and I
wait patiently for your valuable advices.



Yours Sincerely Faithful,

Tyler Waithaka

Tell: +225-66-14-38-83
Email: samueltyler@mixmail.com

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