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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million us dollars" (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)
  • "contact me immediately" (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 next of kin 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.
  • +22547440600 (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.
  • rosem@ubbi.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Rosemary <amia_203@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: rosem@ubbi.com
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:50:38 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hello my dear,


Hello my dear,
 
My name is Miss Rosemary Davidson; I am the account officer in the Bank here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire. I know this letter will come to you as a surprise but I want you to understand that my reason of contacting you is because I want us to do this business together.
I got your contact on net as I was searching someone from your place, I decided to contact you for this simple business deal considering the fact that you will help me in the actualization of this great business deal.
 
I am contacting you concerning a fund valued of $9.5 Million US Dollars deposited with our bank by our late esteemed customer, his from your place by nationality a contractor residence in Iraq.
 
He moved this money from Iraq to Abidjan for investment. He went back to Iraq to bring his entire family to Abidjan from Iraq but he died in a bomb blast with his entire family.
 
Click on this page below to read more about the money and the bomb blast: (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ middle_east/2988455.stm.) I will give you the information's of the fund, which you will use to apply to the bank for the releasing of the fund to you as the cousin or the next of kin to the deceased customer.
 
If you are ready and capable to handle this transaction due let me know so that I will go into details procedures and tell you what to do.
 
Contact me through my Private Mail: rosem@ubbi.com try to contact me immediately you receive this mail or you try to call me +225 4744 0600,
 
I am waiting to hear from you.
 
Miss Rose Mary

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