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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)
  • "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.
  • sandrine_amale.7777@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <sandrineamale1985h@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: sandrine_amale.7777@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:31:20 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Sandrine Amale

>From Sandrine Amale
Private e-mail (sandrine_amale.7777@yahoo.fr )


Dear,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration, since I can
not be able to see you face to face at first, please I need your help.
I am Sandrine Amale, the only Daughter of late DAGO AMALE, from Cote d'Ivoire (I am 23years of age.)

My father was a reputable Gold and elephant tusk merchant in Abidjan , Cote d'Ivoire before his untimely death.After his business trip to Tunisia,to nagociate on a cocoa and gold business he wanted to invest in Tunisia, a week after he came back from Tunisia, he got an accident with my mother of
which my mother died instantly but my father died five days after in a private hospital. On that faithful afternoon, I didnt know that my father was going to leave me after I had earlier lost my mother, but before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die.


(MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he called me to his bed side and told me that he deposited the sum of ($6.m) Six
Million US Dollars in a bank here in Cote D' Ivoire.That the money was meant for his cocoa and Gold business he wanted to
establish in Tunisia, according to my father he deposited the money in a fixed suspense account using my name as the next of kin, He instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business partner for my life time investment abroad. Now I have succeeded in locating the deposit documents and
the bank where this money is here in Abidjan,Cote d`Ivoire.
Due to political crises in my country Cote d'Ivoire, I am now seeking for your assistance to help me transfer this money out from my country Cte dIvoire to your account abroad so that we should invest it in any meaningful and lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope in life.
I am willing to offer you 15% of the total fund if only you can help me out of my present predicament.

I honourably seek your assistance in the following ways
(1.) To provide a bank account where this money can be transfered into.
(2.) To make arrangements for me to come over to your country after the
successful transfering of this money into your account, to come and
further my education.
(3.) To help invest this money in a profitable business since I am
only 22yrs of age and do not know much about business.
(4) To sponsor me transfer this money into your account,
(5). I want you to promise me that you are not going to betray me after the money gets into your account.

The worst part of it is that my uncle is trying to kill me because i refused to hand him over the documents covering this money, He has sold all my father's landed properties including his cars which rightful belong to me and now he want me to hand over the banking document of my father in my
possesion which i refused.Now he said that he will have this money by all means even if it means killing me, so
because of this I ran away from home and hide in a hotel,pending when this money will be transfered so that i can leave the country for my safty.

Please, consider my proposal and get back to me soon and send your direct telephone number to me so we can talk.

Thank's and God bless you.

Yours sincerely,
Sandrine




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