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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 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.
  • lovinawilson05@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Lovina Wilson" <lovinawilson0123@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: lovinawilson10@yahoo.fr
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:46:28 +0000
Subject: Hello Dear

Miss Lovina Wilson
Lot 100 villa 56 Angre District ,
Abidjan Cote D' ivoire
Email: lovinawilson05@yahoo.fr </mc/compose?to=lovinawilson05@yahoo.fr>
Dear,

My name is Lovina Wilson (20yrs) am living in Cote D'ivoire West Africa an only child and an orphan, it is true that we do not know each other in person but knowing someone starts in a day therefore It pleases me to contact you for a Financial business partnership. Although we have never met, but I decided to entrust you with this business.

My late father was a successful businessman and a cocoa merchant,he was out of envy poisoned to death by his close business associates,before his death he deposited the sum of eighteen million USD ($ 18,000000.00) in a top security company here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire.The security company does not know that the metal box deposited by my late father is containing money. Therefore I will want you to help me to retrieve this box transfer the money to your personal account.

Finally help me to come over to your country and also help me in investing the money.

I will like to invest in any of these areas.
1)Telecommunications
2) Transportation Industry
3) five-star Hotel4) Estate management.

Iam offering you 20% of the total money as your compensation as soon as the transaction is concluded. I await your response as soon as possible to enable me give you full details and please in your reply do include these information for me: 1.Your Full names 2.Your resident address 3.Your Telephone Number 4.Your Occupation. Once i receive the above information i will give you the contact of the security company as well as the certificate of deposit to the said deposit with which you will prove to the security company that you are the beneficiary of the deposit.

May the Lord bless you.
Lovina Wilson

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