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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • ",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)
  • "confidentiality of this transaction" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • sanndrakeita@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • @rocketmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: sarah_keita@hotmail.fr
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 19:13:20 +0700 (ICT)
Subject: Dearest one,


Dearest one,
I apologize for approaching you in such a manner but circumstances forced me to contact you and I believe that you would be obliged to come to my assistance after hearing about my situation.

I was formerly a medical student of the university of Abidjan, Cote d' Ivoire, the only surviving child of late Alim Keita,my father was a politician and also very wealthy cocoa merchant based in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to death by his business associates in collaboration with the rebels of my country on one of their outing to discuss on a business because he was the opposition leader of the government due to the political crisis going on in the country he became their enemy.
My mother died on June 1993, my father took me so special because I am motherless, before the death of my father on October 2006, in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly called me on his bedside and told me many things including a sum of US$7,500,000(seven million five hundred thousand, United States dollars) deposited in a suspense account with a bank in Côte d'Ivoire,that he used my name as the only daughter for the next of kin in deposit of the fund.He said it was because of his success and position that he was poisoned.

Futhermore, he said that the environment was not conducive for me that they were after my life so I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose, (such as real estate management) and finish my education.

Note that the confidentiality of this transaction would be highly appreciated in replying. sanndrakeita@hotmail.fr

I await your response.
Sincerely,
Sarah Keita


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