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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • mchkassi46@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Michel Kassi" <gpmichel@rediffmail.com>
Date: 11 Dec 2006 13:30:59 -0000
Subject: Hello Dear


Greetings to you dear,
I wish to propose to you this business in strict confidence and&nbsp; seriousness. I am looking for a reliable person/company who can assist meclaim the sum of (€ 11,500,000 euro) Eleven Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros from a Security Company where it was deposited.
I am Engr. Michel Kassi (Jr),the son of the late former director of the project and engineering division of SODECI (Société De Distribution D\'eau De Côte d\'Ivoire). This amount to be claimed was realised from over-invoiced contract amount awarded by my late father in 2004 to expatriate Companies. This Contract\'s Amount was deliberately overestimated to read more than the actual cost of the project thus leaving a surplus of (€ 11,500,000 euro) Eleven Million, Five Hundred Thousand Euros for disbursement, but under my protocol division as Civil servants I can not claim this money without a foreign partner who will act as the executed contractor/ beneficiary and as such, entitled to claim the money from the security Company and serve as the custodian of this money.&nbsp;Please if this proposal appeals to your interest kindly&nbsp; get back to me, and upon assisting me successfully in delivering the box of money to your country, I will give you 25% of the total amount,were the rest will be for me, inother to start up any lucrative investment/bussiness in your country.
Note:There is no risk involved in this.As all the modelaties for this claim has been put in place.
I prefare you write me through my private email: (mchkassi46@yahoo.fr)
Best regards,&nbsp;Engr.Michel Kassi (Jr).

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