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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +22507737177 (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.
  • mar_m003@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • chiefbarristerchamber@cheerful.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Mariam." <miss4u23@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: mar_m003@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:10:44 +0100 (CET)
Subject: From: Miss.Mariam Kalou.


From: Miss.Mariam Kalou.
Hello My Friend.
Email: mar_m003@yahoo.com

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family?, You may not understand why this mail came to you, But if you do not remember me, you might have receive an email from me in the past regarding a multi-million-dollar business proposal which we never concluded. I am using this opportunity to inform you that this multi-million-dollar business has been concluded with the assistance of another partner from Portugal who financed the transaction to a successful conclusion.

I thank you for your past great efforts and attempts to our unfinished transfer of fund into your account due to one reason or the other. But I want to inform you that I have successfully transferred the fund out to my new partner's in Portugal that was capable of assisting me in this great venture.

Due to your efforts, sincerity, courage and trust worthiness you showed during the course of the transaction, I am now compensating you with the total sum of US$850,000.00 in my little way to show my gratitude to you. I left a certified cashier bank draft worth of US$850,000.00 cashable in any international/ national bank worldwide with my Lawyer for you.

My Dear, feel free to contact the international Lawyer now on the email contact Below. Email : chiefbarristerchamber@cheerful.com
Telephone: +225-07-73-71-77.
Name: Barrister Malik Coulibaly.

and ask him to release the Cashier Bank Draft of the US$850,000.00 to you as I have authorized him to release it to you whenever you contact him regarding for it.

Please accept the token gift with good faith as this is from the bottom of my heart.
Also please comply with the Lawyer Barrister Malik Coulibaly so that your will get your bank draft without any delay.
Thanks
Yours truly
Miss.Mariam Kalou.


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