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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 - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "trunk box" (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)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "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.
  • madam_akas2005@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MRS AKAS KOROMAH <mrsakas_koromah2000@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:17:58 +0900 (JST)
Subject: FROM MRS AKAS KOROMAH.

FROM MRS AKAS KOROMAH.
Dear Respectful one,

With due respect and humility I write you this letter which I believe you would be of great assistance to me and my children.

I am MRS AKAS KOROMAH, the wife of the late Dr DAVID EMOS KOROMAH JR. of the blessed memory. Prior to my husband assassination by the rebel forces loyal to CORPORAL FODAY SANKOH of the Revolutionary United Front(RUF), He was the Director General National Gold and Diamond Mining Corporation
of Sierra-Leone.

Few days before my husband was assassinated, he instructed me and my children(JOHNSON and ROSE)to move out of Sierra-Leone and also to go in his underground strong room where the documents of money he has deposited in a security company in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire in one trunk Box as family
valuables and treasures with the name of my first son johnson as the beneficiary. The amount is US$15.500,000.00 (Fifteen million five hundred thousand United States Dollars). We managed to escape to Abidjan the Republic of Cote D'Ivoire through the help of my husband's friend who is a trawler:
But due to the political problem here in Cote d'Ivoire

Want you to please assist us to claim the box from the security company But if you can not come dnow here i will send to you the contact information where the money he has deposited in the security company immediately I here from you so that youy will contact them on how to
Deliver the box to you in your country . Please ensure that no one else knows about this money as it is only myself my children, yourself and the Rev. Pastor of the church where we worship knows about this money

Me and my children, have it in mind to reward you with a certain percentage for your assistance. As soon as you see this email do not hesitate to call me and my children on this line Tel:+22507531361 immediately you receive this letter to enable us proceed immediately EMAIL ;
madam_akas2005@yahoo.fr

May God bless you as you assist me.
Yours sincerely.
MRS AKAS KOROMAH







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