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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 "dying widow" 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.
  • mesimonifa@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mesi Monifa" <nifamesi@latinmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: nifamesi@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 16:12:07 -0500
Subject: letter from mesi

Mesi Monifa
Cote d'Ivoire
Abidjan
Email: mesimonifa@yahoo.fr

Compliments of the Day!!
I am Mesi Imelda Monifa staff of Ministry of Tourism presently undergoing medical Treatment for Pancreas Cancer I am married to Luis Monifa worked with National Petroleum Corporation for nineteen years before he died in the year 2002 during the Ivorian political crisis. We were married for eleven years without children though we were both born again Christians. Since his death I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home, which the Bible is against.

When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $5.5Million accumulated from an onshore engineering contract awarded to him during the military regime. Gen. Robert Guei with one commercial Bank here in Ivory Coast. Presently, the money is still with the Bank unclaimed recently, my Doctor told me that my condition has worsened and it is obvious I would not survive unless by special grace of God though what disturbs me most is that I am diagnosed to be having spinal abnormality.

For this I decided to donate the fund to a church or better still a God fearing individual that will use it to support orphanage homes, widows and propagating word of God and to ensure that house of God is maintained. The Bible made us to understand that blessed is the hand that giveth.

I took this decision because I don't have children that will inherit this money and my husband's relatives are not Christians and had been maltreating me with the only motive to take away our properties including the funds from me because of my faith and trust in God since his death hence I don't want my husband's hard earned money to be misused by this unbelievers. I therefore request you to accept this proposal and help me to achieve my heart desire.

I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the lord one day. If you will be of assistance, I will surely appreciate and thank you for your kindness in giving me this help.

Thanks
Mesi Monifa

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