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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:
  • "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • sussankamara80@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Sussan Kamara <sussan.kamara90@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: sussankamara80@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 20:11:43 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From : Sussy Kamara


From : Sussy Kamara
Note:please reply to my private e-mail box below: ( sussankamara80@yahoo.fr )

Urgent / Assistance
Hello Dear,


Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or written before.

Afer you receive this mail kindly contact me on my private e.mail contact below. introducing myself, I am Sussy Kamara, the Only Daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Dikko Kamara, my father was a gold and cocoa mercahnt based in accra, ghana and Abidjan (Ivory Coast), he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips. before the death of my father on 29th june 2006 in a private hospital here in Abidjan.

He secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of usd $6.5M ( Six Million Five Hundred Thousand U.s ), deposited in a suspence account in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan Ivory Coast, that he used my name as his only daughter for the next of kin in depositing of the fund.

1) To assist me in retriving this money from the bank.
2) To serve as the guardian of this fund.
3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to secure a residential permit in your country moreover, I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after the successful transfer of this fund to your nominated account overseas.

E-mail address above ( sussankamara80@yahoo.fr) Anticipating to hear from you soon.



Awaiting your reply immediate and God bless.
Regards

Sussy Kamara.

Please reply to my private email box below: ( sussankamara80@yahoo.fr )

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