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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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.
  • +22508676898 (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.
  • e-mail-ike_2flash@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "r.k. trabelsi" <r.k.trabelsi4@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ike_2flash@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:13:02 +0000
Subject: From Mrs.Rabiu keita Trabelsi

From Mrs.Rabiu keita Trabelsi
+225 08 67 68 98

PLOT 23 Felix Avenue BP.
Abidjan - Côte d'Ivoire
E-MAIL-ike_2flash@yahoo.com

Dear Friend,
It is my pleasure to contact you for a business
venture which I and my Son, intend to establish in
your country. Though I have not meet with you before
but I believe one has to risk confiding in someone to
succeed sometimes in life. There is this amount of
twenty-five million, five hundred thousand United State
Dollars($25.500,000) which my late Husband Mr.kenneth Kader trabelsi. A
highly reputable business magnet-(a cocoa merchant)who operated in the
capital of Ivory-coast during his days, deposited in a security company in
Abidjan Capital city of Ivory-Coast which he wanted to used for his
political reason in our Country before he was assassinated.

Now I and my son have decided to invest these money in
your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa
for security and political reasons. We want you to
help us claim and receive the consignment which will
be sent to you through diplomatic means to your
address to avoid any traces of the funds and to enable
us plan for the investment in your Country: I will
like to invest part of the money into these three
investment in your Country but, if there is any other
business that is better than what I am suggesting, I
will be very glad to follow your advice.
1). Real estate
2). The transport industry
3). Five star hotel
If you can be of an assistance to us we will be
pleased to offer to you a very pleasant percentage of 25% Of the total fund
while
the balance will be invested by me and my son.
I await your soonest response.
Respectfully yours,
Mrs.Rabiu keita Trabelsi

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