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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 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.
  • alfredbangura_203@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: alfred bangura <alfredbangura_138@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <alfredbangura_203@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:50:29 +0200
Subject: Good Day,



Good Day,

Firstly I know it will takes you by surprise to receive this kind of message, nevertheless I will introduce myself to you. I am Alfred Bangura, the only son of late Chief James A. Bangura from Sierra Leone. I got your contact from the ecowas Information Center in Cote d'Ivoire. My sources of your contact gave me a courage and confidence to rely on you for this project proposal that I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance to transfer my only inheritance cash of Fifteen Million United State Dollars ($15,000,000.00) to your private bank account for onward investment pending my arrival to your country, presently the fund is in the Bank here in Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). Source of the money is from my late father, Chief James A. Bangura, a native of Kenema Eastern Province in Sierra Leone my Father was the General Manager of Sierra Leone mining co-operation (S.L.M.C.) Freetown.

According to my father this money was the income accrued from mining co-operation's over draft and minor sales, before the peak of the civil War between the rebels forces RUF leader Corporal Foday Sankoh and junta leader Johnny Paul Koroma Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping operation that almost destroyed our 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 us my mother 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 mother heart failure and other related complications of which she later died in the Hospital after I must have spent a lot of money on her. I am alone in this strange country suffering without any care or help. Without any relation, I am now like a refugees and orphans. My only hope now is in the fund my father 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 my behalf in your country and you will be the caretaker, to secure a college for me in your country to further my education and to make arrangement for my travel to your country after you have transferred this fund.

Please I will offer you 15% of the total fund for your efforts assistance. Please response to my alternative email address (alfredbangura_203@yahoo.fr) for security reason since I am still in the refugees camp.

Best regards,Alfred Bangura

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