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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:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • mirabel.milan@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mirabel milan <mirabelmilan01@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mirabel.milan@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:11:53 -0800 (PST)
Subject: From: Mirabel Milan


From: Mirabel Milan
Abidjan Cote d'ivoire
West Africa.
Email: mirabel.milan@yahoo.com


Introduction

Please do reply me through my private mail box above and also send me your direct E-mail to reach you .

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your country. Though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in succeed sometimes in life. There is this huge amount of eight million U.S dollars($8,000,000.00) which my late Father kept for me with a Fiduciary Fund Holder in Abidjan before he was assasinated by the Rebels persons during this war in Cote d'ivoire.

Now I have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security and political reasons. I want you to help me claim and retrieve this fund from the Fiduciary Fund Holders and transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment purposes on these areas:

1) Telecommunication
2) The Transport Industry
3) Five Star Hotel
4) Real Estate Management

If you can be of an assistance to me I will be pleased to offer to you 15% of the total fund for your assistance to me.

I await your soonest response.

Respectfully yours,
Miss.Mirabel Milan



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