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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 us 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)
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "your urgent reply" (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • laticia_anis01@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Leticia Anis <anisleticia12@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: laticia_anis01@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:47:19 +0100 (CET)
Subject: BELOVED I NEED YOUR ASSISTANT URGENT


Dear Beloved i am Laticia Anis.

Reply with laticia_anis01@yahoo.com


I am GoodLuck Anis and contacting you in relation to the Investment of a sum of( 3.5million us dollars )that my late father left in the bank before his death and this money is in fix deposit with an institution here in Abidjan, Cote d' Ivoire- West Africa.
My father was a successful importers of vehicle batteries, windscreen and vehicle accessories and was suspected to have been poisoned by his business colleagues. and i will now want you to be my guardian and appointed beneficiary or representative in order to receive the funds in your country of abode owing to my status as a young child with a lot of unreliable extended family members around.
Please, I will want you to respond to this mail so that I will be able to explain elaborately how I think going about this transaction successfully so that you will afterwards arrange me papers to leave this environment immediately in order for me to join you and continue my education in your country so that I can secure my future.
I will be waiting for your urgent response in order to know the way and i send you my full contact and adreses below.

This is my full contact and adreses
My name : Laticia Anis
age..... 20yrs old
address:Lot 15 Rue des jardins
Cocody-Abidjan,
Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa.Profession: student

My father:
Mr. Joseph Anis (blessed memory)
Lot 15 Rue des jardins
Cocody-Abidjan,
Cote d'Ivoire West Africa.Profession: Businessman (importer AND exporter of cocao and vehicle batteries, windscreen and vehicle accessories )
Official address:
Akali & Adama ETS.
Export & Import Compagniè
4eme étage, Immeuble la Roi
face de la garde de bassam
Treitchville-Abidjan,
Cote d'Ivoire West Africa

Thanks waiting for your urgent reply with information
God bless
Laticia Anis.




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