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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  • vivian_saja1@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?us-ascii?Q?vivian=20saja?= <viviansaja@seznam.cz>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:57:05 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: =?us-ascii?Q?From=3A=20Miss=20Vivian=20Saja?=






From: Miss Vivian Saja
Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire

Dear,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration since telephone communication can not be suitable enough to communicate to you at first.I am Miss Vivian Saja the only doughter of late Mr Mathew Saja of Sierra-Leone (SL) I am 24 years of age. My late father was limited liability in Cocoa and Gold merchant in Sierra-Leone before his untimely death. After his business trip to Abidjan-Cote d'Ivoire,to negociate on a cocoa and gold business he wanted to invest in Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire.


A Week after he came back from Abidjan, he got an accidente with my mother of which my mother died instantly but my father died after five days in a private hospital on that faithful afternoon. I didn't know that my father was going to leave me after I had lost my mother.


But before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die. He my father, MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE he disclosed to me that he deposited sum of $9.7,000,000,00 US Dollars (NINE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in a Bank here in Abidjan- Cote d'ivoire.


That the money was meant for his cocoa and Gold company he wanted to establish in Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire though, He single handed me the deposit certificate and instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business partner for my life time investment abroad. Now I have succeded in locating the bank here in Abidjan- Cote d'ivoire and also confirmed the bank with most honest and confidentiality.


Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help me lift this money out from Abidjan to your safe account abroad so that we should invest it in any meaningful lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope in life.

Awaiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities of this transaction. Please kindly contact me immediately for more discussion.

Please don't hesitate to contact me through this email address (vivian_saja1@yahoo.fr)

Thanks for your kind attention.

Yours sincerely
Miss Vivian Saja

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