419 scam: "Miss Marie Dagogo" <marie_dagogo45@yahoo.com> From :Miss.Marie. Dagogo

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "huge amount of money" (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)
- "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 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.
- mariedagogo450@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Marie Dagogo" <marie_dagogo45@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mariedagogo450@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:34:43 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: From :Miss.Marie. Dagogo

From: Miss. Marie Dagogo.
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
West Africa.

Dearest One,

My name is Marie from West Africa and I am 19 years old.

Please it is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I
intend to establish in your country requiring maximum trust and 100%
confident.

Although I have not known or met with you before but I believe that one
has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life. So, there
is this huge amount of money in the total amount of four million eight
hundred thousand euro (4,800,00.00 €) only which I inherited from my late
father in a bank here in Abidjan Cote d’ Ivoire before he was poisoned to
death by his business associates in collaboration with the family members.

My mother died when I was just a baby and since then my father took me so
special. Before the death of my father in a private hospital here in
Abidjan, he secretly called me on his bed side and told me about the money
that he deposited in a banks here in Cote d’Ivoire using my name as his
only daughter for the next of Kin in depositing of the money. He further
explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by
his business associates in collaboration with family members out of wicked
and jealousness.

Now, due to the political instability in this country and my family
relatives are threatening my life because of my inheritance from my late
father; therefore, I have decieded to leave this country and invest this
money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security
purposes. I want you to help me to transfer this money into your country
for investment purposes on the followings below:

-Telecommunication Industries
-Real Estate Managements
-International Schools

-Five star hotels

As soon as I receive your urgent reply indicating your interest to assist
me to successfully transfer the money into your account, I will give you
all the necessary information you may require to proceed towards
transferring the money to your account. Finally, I am willing to offer you
15% of the total money as mode of compensation for your effort for
assisting me with this humble request. Please for my security reason,
reply me through my private email address at (mariedagogo450@gmail.com)
Thank you and God bless you.

Marie Dagogo

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