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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.
  • +22507531361 (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.
  • caro_furtune2001@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • caro_furtune2001@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "CAROLINE" <caro@leonardo.it> (may be fake)
Reply-To: caroline.colman@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:18:30 +0000
Subject: We Need Your Help

FROM CAROLINE AND FORTUNE COLMAN
ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE WEST AFRICA
EMAIL ADDRESS ; caro_furtune2001@yahoo.fr
HELLO
WE GREET YOU IN THE NAME OF THE GOD. PLEASE DO NOT
BE EMBARRASED,WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF LATE MR DAVID
COLMAN FROM SIERRA LEONE IN WEST AFRICA, WE ARE
SEEKING YOUR ATTENTION TO HELP US IN TRANSFERING
OUR INHERITANC THE SUM $18,500,000,00 US DOLLARS
($18.5MILLION USD) IN YOUR PRIVATE ACCOUNT FOR
OUR INVESTMENT PURPOSE. PLEASE IT IS MORE
THAN URGENT,WE PROPOSE 20% OF THE MONEY
AS YOUR SHARE FOR THE ASSISTANCE. PLEASE
GET IN TOUCH WITH US IMMEDIATELY.
REPLY TO US URGENTLY AND CALL US
NOW ON (+22507531361) FOR MORE
EXPLANATIONS. ( AND PLEASE SEND TO US
YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER SO THAT WE CAN CALL YOU )
EMAIL ADDRESS ; caro_furtune2001@yahoo.fr

THANKS,
CAROLINE AND FORTUNE

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam