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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 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.
  • +22506518131 (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.
  • antonio12gomes@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Antonio Gomes" <gomes_12antonio@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:54:20 +0100
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE.


Hello Dear,

Good Day,

Please before anything i will want you to bear with me after reading my mail, and be of good assistance to me.Of which you know bad people in this world has made us not to trust the good once again. But as for me you can trust me, because i am a God fearing person, i always like truth and honesty in anything i am doing,and let truth and honesty be our watch word in this transaction.

For your information, i contacted you in regards to the sum of $3,700,000. that was deposited in our Bank here in Cote D'Ivoire by one late Mr. Richard Benson, that was working with United National before he died. And since Mr. Richard Benson died, nobody has come for the claims of the fund.So that is why i contacted you, in order for you to make claims of the fund as a business partner to late Mr.Richard Benson.

In addition, there is no risk in this transaction, i am the remittance director of our Bank, all i want you to do is to get back to me with your full information that is stated below:

1) Your full name and residentail address.

2) Your telephone and fax number.

3) Your full Banking information, where the fund will be transferred to.

On receipt of my mail, if you need any additional question in regards to my proposal. You can call me on 00225 06518131 or you write me on my personal email address that is stated herein ( antonio12gomes@hotmail.com)

Finally, as soon as the fund gets into your account, i will give you 30% from the total $3,700,000. So fill free to respond my mail and God bless you as i look forward to read from you.

Yours,

Mr. Antonio Gomes.

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