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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:
  • "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.
  • mathias_seah3@yahoo.fr
  • mathias_seah2@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Mathias Seah" <mathias_seah@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: seah_mathias@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:13:50 +0100
Subject: Reply Urgent

From Mr. Mathias Seah
Dakar Senegal
West Africa.
Email: mathias_seah3@yahoo.fr
After going through your profile i decided to contact you for
partnership and assistance am Mr Mathias Seah, from Abidjan, Ivory
Coast and the
only son of late chief and Mrs SEAH, my father was poisoned to death by
his business associates because of his wealth and during my fathers
sickness he called me on his sick bed as his only son because my mother
died when i was young and told me about the money($8.500.000) he
deposited here in Senegal, that it was because of this money he was
poisoned
that if he dies I shall move to Senegal and look for some one whom i
trust to help me transfer this money out of Senegal to His/Her account
for
investment purpose abroad while i will continue my education then the
person will be managing the investment. I am soliciting your assistance
to help me transfer this money out of this country for my life sake
while i will come to meet you to continue my education in your country.
I am looking forward to hear from you so that we can discuss on what
will be your compensation for this assistance’s I have every documents
that relates to this transfer.
Please reply me directly on this my private mail box for more details.
mathias_seah2@yahoo.fr
Expecting to hear from you,

Thanks
Mr Mathias Seah.

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