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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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: Thombi Kilian <kilianthombi04@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: kilianthombi02@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 06:46:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: bonjour Dear Sir


Dear Sir,
=A0
I am Kilian Thombi from Zimbabwe. It is my pleasure to contact you for a bu=
siness venture which I intend to establish in your country, under your supe=
rvision if it pleases you, though I have not met with you before but consid=
ering the recent political instabilities in my country - Zimbabwe, I believ=
e one has to risk confiding situations under the hand of people that ought =
to help them, knowing that it will=A0 surprise you=A0 that I contacted you =
through this means but we are .desperate and our present condition now is f=
rustrating, that was why we use this medium to fasting up our request
=A0
I am Kilian Thombi the only son of Dr Mathias Thombi late assassinated sena=
tor in Zimbabwe but presently I am in Abidjan, capital city of Ivory Coast =
in West Africa, for the past months now. I am contacting you to seek your g=
ood assistance to transfer and invest USD 15.5 million belonging to our lat=
e father which is deposited in a bank in Abidjan, awaiting claim before he =
was assassinated by unknown persons during this present political crises in=
our province of in Zimbabwe.
=A0
Please i will like you to contact the bank on my behalf officially, indicat=
ing=A0 that you are authorize by me, to call as the foreign business Associ=
ate/co-beneficiary of my late father to make inquires on how the money coul=
d be transferred to your designated account. I thank you immensely for your=
co-operation and understanding and my greetings to your family.=20
=A0
Best Regard,
Kilian Thombi
(Tel=A0:0022507044894).
=A0=0A=0A=0A

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