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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:
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "international remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "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.
  • franka_agali@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <franka_agali@centrum.sk>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:30:08 +0200
Subject: From: Miss Franka Agali


From: Miss Franka Agali
112,rue  de' gastine
cocodi Abidjan
Cote d'ivoire.
Phone : +22504302869.
Private Email : franka_agali@yahoo.com

My Dear,
I am Miss Franka Agali an accounts clerk with ECOBANK of West
Africa-International Remittance Department which has it’s corporate head office here in Abidjan, Côte d´Ivoire,the bank involves in disbursement of funds to finance United Nation projects and common wealth development projects in Africa.

In the course of my duty, I discovered the total sum of USD
$8,500,000(Eight million Five hundred thousand dollars) in cash for disbursement for a contract that has been concluded. Unfortunately, the beneficiary to that fund is dead.

The fund was deposited in a name of a family with a secret coded
number, which I happened to have in my possession. I have all the necessary information within my disposal to move this fund out of the bank for private use without the knowledge of anybody.

The area of assistance required of you is to front you as the
Beneficiary, so that the fund can be retrieved for onward transfer to your designated bank account overseas.

I shall provide you with detailed information on how to execute this
transaction upon receipt of your reply. I have mapped out 30% for you,65% for me and 5% for reimbursement of both parties for expenses incurred during the pendency of the transaction. Be rest assured that there is no risk involved.

Please contact me through my private Email : franka_agali@yahoo.com
because of the confidentiality required and. I hope to hear from you
soon,Thanks and God bless you.

Yours faithfully,

Miss Franka Agali.

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