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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:
  • "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 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.
  • +22508188984 (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.
  • drwilliamschallas@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr Williams Challas" <drwilliamschallas10@hotmail.fr> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:21:44 +0200
Subject: RE: HOW ARE YOU TODAY?


Hello Dear,

I am writing you this mail only to ask if you can be trusted, because bad people in this world has made us not to trust the good once again, but as for me, you can trust me. However i am Dr Williams Challas, i am working in a Bank here in Abidjan-Cote D'Ivoire as the remittance director of the Bank. For your information,the sum of $1,500,000.(One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) Was deposited by one late Mr. Daniel Samuel for the past 10 years. And since Mr. Danniel Samuel died nobody has come for the claims of the fund.
So that is why i am writing you this proposal, in order for you to act as a business partner to Late Mr. Daniel Samuel, so it will enable me to transfer the fund into your account in your country. For your information, there is no risk in this transaction, in our Bank i am the only person that knows about the money, as i am the remittance director of our Bank. So please fill free and get back to be, in order for me to give you the full details on how the fund will be transferred into your account without any problem.

For more details, you can contact me with my direct email address that is stated herein ( drwilliamschallas@hotmail.fr ) And i will like to know how much will be good for your assistance.

Thanks and God bless you.

Yours,

Dr Williams Challas.
+225 08188984

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