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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:
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • tina_cisse220@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Tina Cisse <tinacisse_8@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: tina_cissex@yahoo.es
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:03:29 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Hello!! From Tina


ABIDJAN,COTE D'IVOIRE
EMAIL:tina_cisse220@yahoo.fr

Dear One,

Pls do reply me with the mail above and also send me your direct mail to reach you. I know that this mail may come to you as surprise , I am Miss Tina Cisse the Daughter of Late Dr Edward Cisse the former director general of Sierra-leone Gold and diamond corporation who was assasinated with my Mother by the rebels loyal to Foday Sankoh the (R U F) leader. I managed to escape my country to scure my life.

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I want to intend to establish in your country. Though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in succeed sometimes in life. There is this huge amount of Six million Five hundred Thousand U.S dollar($6.5,000,000.00) which my late Father kept with a top finance security company here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire before he was assasinated by the Rebels. The money as he told me is neatly packed in a two Metallic Trunk Box deposited as family valuables

Now I have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security and political reasons.I want you to help me stand as my guardian and foreign trustee; claim and retrieve these box from the Finance and Security Company and transfer the money into your personal account in your country for investment purposes on these areas:

1). Telecommunication
2). Transport Industry
3). Real Estate

If you can be of an assistance to me i will be pleased to offer to you 20% Of the total fund. Again, I don't want this to get to the knowledge of my late Father family members because this is the only thing remaining for me as they have seized all other properties leaving me empty handed. But we trust that with God all things are possible and if the security company releases the consignment to you, my suferring will come to an end. I have all the documents which the company issued to my late Father when he made the deposit.

I await your soonest response.

Respectfully yours,
Mis Tina Cisse



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