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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:
  • "million united state dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • +22502331116 (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.
  • wdorman01@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: water and rose <w_r42@hotmail.fr>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:40:00 +0200
Subject: From Water And Sister.



From Water And Sister.Please I am Master Water Dorman, the only son of late Chief Dorman Micheal from Sierra Leone.I got your contact from the ecowas Information Center in Cote d'Ivoire. My sources of your contact gave me the courage and confidence to rely on you. I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance to transfer our cash of Fifteen Million United State dollars ($15,000,000.00) now in the custody of a Bank here in Abidjan to your private account pending our arrival to your country. Source of the money my late father, Chief Dorman Micheal, a native of mende district in the Northern province of Sierra Leone,was the General Manager of Sierra Leone mining co-operation (S.L.M.C.) Freetown. According to my father this money was the in come accrued from mining co-operation's over draft and minor sales,before the peak of the civil War between the rebels forces of major Paul Koroma and the combined forces of ecomog peace keeping operation that almost destroyed my country, following the forceful removal from power of the civilian elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels.My father had already made arrangement for his family, my mother, my little sister and myself to be evacuated to Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire with our personal effects. My father deposited the fund for the safe custody until after the war when he will join us. During the war in my country, and following the indiscriminate looting of public and government properties by the rebel forces, the sierra Leone mining cooperation Was one of the targets looted and destroyed.My father including other top Government functionaries were attacked and killed by the rebels because of his relationship with the civilian government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. As a result of my father death, and with the news of my uncles involvement in Air crash in January, dashed our hope of survival.The untimely deaths caused my mothers heart failure and other related complications of which she later died in the Hospital after we must have spent a lot of money on her. Now my 16-year-old sister and myself are alone in this strange country suffering without any care or help. without any relation, we are now like refugees and orphans. Our only hope now is in fund ourfather deposited in the Bank to this effect, I humbly solicit your assistance in the followings ways, to assist me claim this fund from the Bank as co-beneficiary and to make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country and you will be the caretaker, to secure a college for my little sister and my self in your country to further our education and to make arrangement for our travel with you to your country after you have transferred this fund.Most importantly,the whole documents issued after deposit in my custody for your assistance, I beg to concede 15% of this money to you for your efforts assistance. email us back at wdorman01@myway.com. Call us on telephone +225 02331116 for more details.Best regards,Water And Sister
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