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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:
  • "hundred thousand american 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)
  • "contact me immediately" (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 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.
  • charlestoure10@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "charles toure" <charlestoure002@acasa.ro>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 13:45:57 +0300
Subject: from charles toure your,s friendly ok ..


i am Charles Toure by names & my Sister elizabeth.
writting from the United Nations Refugee Camp here in abidjan Cote d
Ivoire.
below was my Private Email: charlestoure10@yahoo.fr

of course"..
may you accept our warm greetings unbehalf of ourself...

i also quite kwows that our surden mail! though, might appear as a surprise
and there may be curiusities of ignoring it as unserious, but please
consider it a divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility. I am
23 years old by names charles toure as said:, I am contacting you on behalf
of my youner sister Elizabeth, We are now orphans!.. by Nationality
Ivoirians.

Our late Father Mr Lawrence cheif Toure was a successful business-man whom
before his untimely death, was a Cocoa and Diamond Merchant in abidjan Cote
d'lvoire. Both our Father and Mother were poisoned at a party organised by
one of his business associates. but before he later died in a private
hospital here, my Father called me and told me that he deposited the sum of
12.5 Million Five Hundred Thousand American Dollars), in a bank here and
which he useses my name as the next of kin been the only son he dearly
loved.

but Due to the problem that have arised in our family between my late
Father's brothers over who should control his wealth and subsquent death in
the family, I have decided with my younger sister to transfer this funds
overseas for future investment after we finish our education.

We want to leave here and come over to your country to live and continue
our studies, because our lives is no longer safe here. We have heard from a
reliable source that they are now planing on how to retrieve all the
documents concerning the funds from us, so that they can claim the funds.

but Before contacting you, we have personaly spoken with the local bank
manager and worked out modalities on how to transfer the funds to your
country.Please, we humbly seek your assistance in the following ways if you
can

1 To assist us in transferring this fund quietly into your account in your
country 2 To serve as the guardian of this funds since I am still in the
university and my younger sister is still in the college, 3 To make
arrangement for me and my younger sister to come over to your country to
further our education and to help us secure a residential permit in your
country. Moreover, we are willing to offer you any agreed (percentage) out
of the total funds as compensation for your efforts/input after the
successful transfer of this funds into your nominated account overseas,
while some percentage will be set aside to offset any expenses we may
incur.

Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards assisting us as I believe
that this transaction would be concluded within the shortest possible time.
note please...if you are interested to help us, contact me immediately
after you read this proposal so that I may give you more detailed
information on how this transfer could be carried out. However, I wish to
hear from you to know your decision concerning this proposal.Please reply
me at Private Email: charlestoure10@yahoo.fr

Yours Sincerely
Charles Toure and sister..









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