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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "please indicate your interest" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "account in your country or any safer place" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million 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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22508759244 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • rebeccabuka2008@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.rebeccabuka" <rebeccabuka03@fastwebmail.it>
Reply-To: rebeccabuka2008@yahoo.fr
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:45:59 +0200
Subject: Greetings


Greetings

Greetings in the name of the most high GOD. The source through which I got
your contact gave me the confidence to reach you and to disclose this
important issue to you,i know i can trust you but my only fear now is that i
hope and pray you believe what i have to tell you.

I am Mrs.rebecca Buka from Sierra Leone. I lost my husband a couple of
months ago. My husband was a dearest One serving
director of the Agro- exporting board until his death,
he was assassinated by the rebels during the political uprising.

Before his death he had a foreign account here in Cote dIvoire where he made
a deposit of US$10.5 Million Dollars which he deposited for the purchase of
cocoa processing machine and development of another factory before his
untimely death.
Being that this part of the world experiences political crises time without
number, there is no guarantee of lives and property.I cannot invest this
money here any long, despite it has been my late husbands industrial plans.I
want you to do me a favour to receive this funds to a safe account in your
country or any safer place as the beneficiary . I have plans to invest this
money in continuation with the investment vision of my late husband, but not
in this place again rather in your country.
I have the vision of going into real estate and industrial production. This
is my reason for contacting you. Please if you are willing to assist me, I
will like you to send me your
1. Your full name, contact postal address
2. Your phone and fax numbers.
3. Occupation.


Once i confirm this I will submit offical to the bank as my late husband
foriegn business partner so that they bank will transfer this money into
your account.please indicate your interest in replying soonest.

Thanks and best regards and please call me +225 08759244 (
rebeccabuka2008@yahoo.fr)

Yours,
Mrs.rebeccaBuka

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