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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.
  • peter1manson@yahoo.com.br (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "peter manson" <petermanson3@klikni.cz>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 09:35:08 +0000
Subject: From Peter Mansson.


From Peter Mansson.
Cote d' Ivoire ( Abidjan )
West African
Please you can reply here peter1manson@yahoo.com.br
Dearest one ,
I do not mean to embarras you by this proposal, but to know if i can
confident in you for our safety and also to seek your utmost assistance
and it is my pleasure to write you Based on the information and
recommendation I got about quick growth of investment in your country.I am
Peter
Manson and my sister is Mary Manson we are the children of Chief Taylor
Manson from Sierra Leone. We are writing you from Rep of Cote 'Ivoire where
we have been taking refuge after the brutal war and murder of our perants by
the rebels during the renewed fighting in our country.
Because of the war our late Father sold his shipping company and took
us to a nearby country Cote d'Ivoire to make a deposit in a Bank in Abidjan
which contains the sum of US $ 9.5million, Due to the courrent political
situation in Ivory Coast we are seeking f or your assistance to transfer
this money and also relocate to your country to further our studies.Now
permit us to ask these few questions:-
1. Can you honestly help us?
2. Can we completely trust you?
3. What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you
after the money is in your account?.
I await anxiously to hear for you so that we will discuss the
modalities of this transaction and please treat this matter with
confidentical
because of the safety of our life and the money.Thanks and God bless.
Best regards.
From Peter Mansson.
Please you can reply here peter1manson@yahoo.com.br

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