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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 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.
  • richman992@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Yousouf Ibrahim" <richman991@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: richman992@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 02:23:11 -0700
Subject: attn: please

BICICI BANQUE INTERNATINAL POURLE COMMERCER ETL INDUSTRIAL EN COTE D IVOIRE



Good day Ladies and Gentlemen in the co-operate organization; before I go forward I will like to introduce our company above to you.

The BICICI we financial business and we also give loan to small scale businesses and big organization who are in need.

1. We finance co-operate organization who are in need of finance.
2. We also give loan to Companies who are in direst.

You can contact our representative in Dubai U.A.E for more details through the mobile line below 00971503819290 or through this e-mail address richman992@yahoo.com <mailto:richman992@yahoo.com>

Anti-fraud resources:

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