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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "transfer into your account" (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)
  • "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 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.
  • +22507434694 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: philip culubara <philipculu0001@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:22:51 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Thanks for your respond.


Dear

Good day and many thanks for your mail response. I'm very happy for your kind promise/assurance to help me transfer my money to your account in your country and also help me when investing the money in good business in your country and be my guardian when i come to live in your country.

To start with and before we will go on to make the transfer to your account, I will like to know you more fully and very well so that I will have much information of whom I am dealing with.You know I can't just transfer my money to your account like that because I have not known you very well.This is why I have decided to build my relationship first,build trust and know ourselves much before we go on with the transfer, I'm doing this because I want to be careful since this money is my only hope of future and survival as I plan to come down to your country to continue my living.

I will like to know if I will be able to get nice/good school in your country to continue my education and good area to invest this money in your country .for your information I want to study business management so that I can be able to manage the investment done this money in future.

For my brief introduction,I'm Philip Culubara and I'm only 22year old .
I am citizen of Republic of COTE D' IVOIRE
Name of my Late father: Desmond Culubara
Name of my Late mother: Mrs Mary Culubara ,My Late father before his death was a cocoa and gold marchant in ghana and abidjan the economic capital of cote d'ivoire .This is my brief data.

If there are other things you will like to know about me,please feel free to ask me and i will give you the information. This is to enable us know ourselves better ,build trust and build our relationship before we make the transfer.I expect your urgent mail so that I can give you the contact of the bank where my late father deposited this money before his sudden death for you to contact them to know the existance of this money and the we can proceed in the process of the transfer into your account which you are going to provide for the bank mangement.

However I will like you to give me your private telephone number for easy communication and this my telephone number + 00225 0743 4694 you can call me this number so that we can have little discussion on the investment we are going to do with this money after sucessfull transfer.

Awaiting your urgent respond.

Hope to see you very soon.

Best Regards.
PHILIP


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