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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "dying widow" 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.
  • niceamiro20008@yahoo.co.jp (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: niceamiro_2008@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 05:17:30 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From nice amiro

Address;lot 268 Rue de
Bingerville Cocody Abidjan
Cte d?voire West Africa.
email niceamiro20008@yahoo.co.jp

Here writes Mrs nice amiro, suffering from cancerous ailment. I am married
to Mr. Robert amiro my husband worked with the Chevron/Texaco in United
Kingdom for twenty years before he died in the year 2006. When my late
husband was alive he deposited the sum of
? 17.5 Million (Seventeen Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds) with a
Bank in cote d, ivoire abijan.
Recently,my Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the
stroke and cancerous problems I am suffering from. With this hard reality that
has befallen my family and me, I have decided to donate this fund to you
and want you to use this gift which comes from my husbands effort to fund the
upkeep of widows,
orphans and less-privileged individuals.I took this
decision because I do not have any child that will inherit this money and my
husband relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy persons and I do not want my
husband hard earned money to be misused.
Awaiting your urgent reply via my email
address:niceamiro20008@yahoo.co.jp
With God all things are possible.

Your Sister in Christ,
Mrs. nice amiro



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