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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "any lucrative business in your country" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • brosemarybakkari@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: brosemary05 brosemary05 <brosemary05@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:56:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From Miss Rosemary Bakari.


DEAREST ONE,

Besides being interested in living and investing in your country, Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into Personal and business relationship with you. I got your contact through internet search I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to its esteeming nature. I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business

By going through this mail you may be wondering to know who authored it. Well, i would not hesitate to give a concise introduction of myself,i am Miss Rosemary Bakari the daugther of Dr.William Bakari of kenama distrit in serria-leone. My father was killed by his business partiners on a business trip. Following the political crisis in my country, i was forced to live my country to Abidjan Ivory Coast where my late father deposited the sum of $(9.000.000.00) (Nine million united state dollars)in a security company here in Abidjan. The money he made during his time as coco marchants in my country.

To be honest with you, this is the only inheritance left for me by my late father which i am with the necessary documents concerning this deposit. Now i have succeeded in locating the security company here in Abidjan –cote d’lvoire and I am soliciting for your assistance to help me to transfer this money into your country for investments . So that we can invest it in any lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope of life. I have promise to gratify you with 10% of the total sum if you assist me. Awaiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities of this transaction. Please kindly contact me through my privact email address immediately for more discussion. (brosemarybakkari@hotmail.fr)

Thanks for your kind attention.

Most emphatically,

Miss Rosemary Bakari.



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