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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:
  • "any lucrative business in your country" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • ",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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  • nelson.makenze00@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <nelsonmakenze01@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:29:26 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Nelson Makenze

From Nelson Makenze
Abidjan coted d. ivoire
Dear,

Urgent assistance

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration since I can not be able to see you face to face, at first being i am the son of late Douglas Toti Makenze from Zulu in republic of South Africa (SA). I am Nelson Makenze and my father was a limited liability cocoa and gold merchant in South
Africa before his untimely death After his business trip to Abidjan in Cote d'Ivoire to negotiate on a cocoa business on 16th December 2006.

A week after he came back from Abidjan, he was assassinated with my mother by unknown assassins my mother dead instantly my father dead after five days in hospital, on that faithful aferternoon, I didn'tknow that my father was also going to leave me after I lose my mother before my father gave
up the ghost it was as if he knew he was going to die. (may his soul rest in perfect peace) before his death he disclosed to me that he deposited sum of USD 6,000,000.00 (six millions united states dollars) in a bank in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire. That the money was meant for his cocoa business he
wanted to invest in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire.

My father told me to be carefull of the scammers of my money for my future sake, he instructed me to seek for a life time investment abroad who can help me invest this funds in a profitable business. As a result of this assassination i can not stay in South Africa anymore and to abandon the fund
in Abidjan as my father is no more with my mother now.

I arrives here in abidjan last weekend to locating and confirming the existence of the fund in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire. And also with most honest and confidentiality, I am soliciting your assistance to help me in how to transfer this money from the bank in Abidjan Cote d'ivoire to your account
abroad so that i would invest it in any lucrative business in your country, you ought to know that this is my only hope. I am

I am waiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities of this transaction. Please if this proposal is acceptable to you kindly contact me for more discussion. With my private mail. nelson.makenze00@yahoo.fr

Thanks in advance for your kindly attention.
God Bless you.
Best regards
Nelson Makenze.



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