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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 states 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)
• This email message is a next of kin 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.
  • w.sitta@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Sitabelle.williams" <a.sitaw22@yahoo.com.cn>
Reply-To: w.sitta@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:17:59 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Name : Williams get back to me now


Name : Williams
Surname : Sitabelle
Occupation: Auditor General Bank Atlentique

Dearest friend,
I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to transfer to your overseas account the sum of ($10.000.000 USD) Ten million United States Dollars from our Bank. I am Mrs Sitabelle Williams (Bsc,Msc) General Bank Atlentique here in Cote D'Ivoire, during the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating funds in an account opened in our bank since 1999 and till date no body has operated on the account and after going through old files in the records, I discovered that the owner of the account died long ago in a plane crash along with his family without leaving a [Heir/WILL], hence the floating of the funds and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

Therefore, with a personal conviction of trust and confidence, I wish to contact you as a foreigner, to stand as a relative, thus I can work out the release of the funds, No other person in the office knows about the account, please be assured of the risk free, I抦 the one that will work it out, all I need is your co-operation because the account content can not be approved to an indigene here as his next of kin not even me.

At the conclusion of this project, I propose a joint investment of an equal partnership with you or we may share it in a ratio of 45% for you and 45% for me, while 10% for any expenses incurred for this deal. One more thing please, I beg you don't consider this against moral justification, they are many other aspects of life we may contribute with this funds to help the less privileged and the needy in a society than having it shared as an unclaimed bill among Governments.

I look forward to your earliest response.
Thanks and remained blessed
Mrs Sitabelle Williams

For social and security resaons, please forward your response to w.sitta@hotmail.com



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