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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.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +22506518131 (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.
  • ibibajack11@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Ibiba Jack." <ibibajack11@walla.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:38:01 +0000
Subject: PROPOSAL FOR ASSISTANCE.


Hello Dear,

Please i will want you to bear with my request after reading my mail and be of good assistance to me. However i know you don't know me in person. All the same i contacted you in regards to a fund deposited here in our Bank by one late Mrs. Roseline Clark from Canada. She was working with United Nation here in Cote D'Ivoire before she died. And since she died nobody has come for the claims of her fund.

So please i will want you to make claims of the fund as a business partner to Late Mrs. Roseline Clark. All i need from you is truth and honesty, and let it be our watch word, because you know that bad people in this world has made us not to trust the good once again, but i am trusting you, as i know from my own side there is no risk in this transaction, i am the Bank Manager in our Bank here in Cote D'Ivoire, and is only me that knows about the fund.

In addition, the total amount in question is $2,600,000. And i am proposing to give you the sum of 25% as soon as the fund gets into your account, so please after reading my mail try all your best to get back to me with your direct telephone number so it will enable me to call you on phone for further details, or if you wish you can call me through this number that is stated herein ( 00225 06 518131) Or you can write me through my personal email address: ibibajack11@yahoo.com .

Finally, i will be looking forward to read from you.

Best Regards,

Mr. Ibiba Jack.

Anti-fraud resources:

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