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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "keep it confidential" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
  • "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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "COULIBALY FRANÇOIS" <francois_coulibaly911@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 09:24:58 +0200
Subject: IMPORTANT ET CONFIDENTIEL,

Dear Friend

I have recieve your message and i am happy to meet you, you will be my wife of my life. My name is Mr.COULIBALY FRANCOIS, a banker and accountant with the Abidjan of the BANK OF AFRICA as a director of personal accounts of Ingr.STANLEY LEWIS, which was accustomed to working with a company of oil services here in Dimension Ivory Coast my customer, his wife, and their three children were implied in the airline sick destinies of Kenya break in the coasts of Abidjan in January 2000 from where all the passengers died on board. Since then I made several investigations to locate any of his parents prolonged by customers but not succeeded. After several not successful attempts.

I decided to trace his last name above the Internet, to see whether I could locate any member of his family consequently which I came into contact our particular interest. With the enormous deposit of a sum with at our bank here, where late A an account evaluated to approximately ($16 million the USA dollars).They published me a notification to provide the parents of next or the bank will declare the account unknown and will for these funds with the tresor publique.

Since I have seek to locate the parents of the defunt but without answer during more 4 years now. I then seek your assent to present to you as next parents right for transfered these funds on a bank account, for not that these funds are versed with the treasury and after the transfer I will join you in your country to make the division and to make a new life of economic investor. I ask for your honest co-operation to allow myself to forward to you all the documents that I have here. Will know there is a perfect guarantee in this business then want the keep it confidentialy.And that this will be carried out within the framework of all the legitimate arrangement which will protect you from any infringement from the law.In your answer, I would like that you give me your names and first names, the address, date of birth, numbers of fax and telephone.

Please contact me urgently to give me your position.

Thank you for your good comprehension

COULIBALY FRANÇOIS

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