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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:
  • "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)
  • "million 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 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.
  • +22507433188 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: david cole <david_cole08@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <david_cole111@centrum.sk>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:51:50 +0200
Subject: My Dear Respectful Sir/Madam,



My Dear Respectful Sir/Madam,

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

I am Mr David Cole and my sister is Miss Rose Cole, we are the children of late Chief Paul Cole from Sierra Leone.

I feel pleased contacting you personally with the hope to establish good business relationship that is strongly rooted in truth and the fear of God.

I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance to transfer our cash of thirty Million Dollars ($30,000.000.00) now in the custody of a private Security trust firm here in Abidjan, the money is in one trunk box deposited and declared as family valuables by my late father,as a matter of fact, the company do not know the content as money, although my father made them to understand that the box belongs to his foreign partner.

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 the certificate of deposit he made with a security firm in Abidjan through the aid of UN evacuation team. During the war in my country, and following the indiscriminate looting of Public and Government properties by the rebel forces, the Sierra Leone mining coop. Was one of the target looted and destroyed.

The untimely deaths caused my mother's 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 ending of last year .

Now my 15 years 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. Please as you shown your willingness, Forward to us your full name, address and Tel/ Fax numbers,and new email address also always contact us through our private Email address and the above telephone number .

Thanks May God bless you as you assist us.

Best Wishes,

MR DAVID COLE.+225 07 43 31 88 Call Me Today.
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