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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:
  • "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.
  • danyghalib@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DANIEL GHALIB" <danghalib@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: danyghalib@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 11:12:07 +0000
Subject: BUSINESS ENQUIRIES


From: Daniel Ghalib
Koumassi - Abidjan
Cote D'Ivoire.
Email: danyghalib@gmail.com



We have substantial amount of money we need to invest abroad. I and my
Sister *Almira** *and are refugees in Cote D'Ivoire, a West African country,
and the money in question is an inheritance left for us by our late father,
who was a Diamond and Gold dealer before his death.
We escaped with our father to this country after our mother died in the
civil war. Our father also got killed by rebels who were then fighting the
Ivorian Government in the northern city of Bourke while he was away on
business. This was a very sad moment for us having escaped war in our
country to loose our father in the war in another country. We are hoping you
are in a good position to help us in the transfer and proper investment of
this money in your country.

Please for security reasons, I cannot disclose much information to you now
until you have assured us that we can trust you to receive and invest the
money for us. My younger sister and I are currently living in the UN Refugee
camp in Abidjan, but we will like to relocate to your country because our
condition here is not good. We need to continue our education, while you
invest and manage the money on our behalf.

We hope to receive your reply to the above request as soon as you read this
email through this email address. danyghalib@gmail.com

God bless you.

Daniel Ghalib

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