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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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.
  • +22508006902 (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.
  • marybakuma01@aklan.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mary bakuma <marybakuma04@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: marybakuma01@aklan.com
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:45:39 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From;Madam Mary Bakuma


From;Madam Mary Bakuma
Tel;225 0800 6902.

My Dear,

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your country.

Though I have not met with you before but I believe one has to risk confiding in his fellow human being to succeed sometimes in life.

I want to confide on you for a brighter future of my two sons since you are a human being like me.

There is this huge amount of Fifteen Million five hundred thousand United States dollars ($15.500.000.00) which my late husband deposited with a Bank here in Abidjan Cote D'ivoire before he was assassinated by unknown persons.

Now me and my two fatherless children decided to invest this money in a joint business with you in country or anywhere safe enough for security and political reasons.

I need you to help me claim this fund from the Bank as my late husband business partner and ordered the bank to transfer the fund into your personal account in your country for investment purposes you may advice us.

If you can be of an assistance to us we will be pleased to offer to you 10% Of the total fund.


You can call my son Musa for more explanation on this number: 00225 0800 6902. PLEASE DO REPLY ME WITH THIS PRIVATE MAIL: marybakuma01@aklan.com

I await your soonest response.

Respectfully yours,

Mrs Mary Bakuma & Son Musa.


PLEASE DO REPLY ME WITH THIS PRIVATE MAIL: marybakuma01@aklan.com






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