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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "urgent assistance" (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 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.
  • @rocketmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: Sandra Bucas <sandrabucas1965@ymail.com>
Reply-To: sandrabucas2006@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:08:41 +0700 (ICT)
Subject: From The Orphan Girl Miss Sandra Bucas


Dearest One,

Please do not be surprise to receive my email, am Sandra Bucas from the republic of Ghana student of university of Ghana where i was studying accountancy am 21 years. As a matter of fact due to the unexpected dearth of my family in a ghastly motor accident which take the life of my family bring me down not able to cope up with my education why because no one to sponsored me back to school that is how i left my university.

I now decided to look for a trust and honest person whom can take me as a his or her daugther and also to help me to provide foreign account where the Bank will transfer the funds into and invest the money in a good lucrative business. Please i need your urgent assistance regarding the funds was be deposited by my late father in the Bank here in Abidjan capital city of Ivory Coast that worth the sum of ($22,500.000.00) USD. But i want you to understand that the linkage of the drum will not stop it for retaining water not seeing me doesn't matter . All i need is honest person for assistance and guardian's and also i promise to be a honest orphan to you. if you are agree to agree to each other we forge ahead and proceed on.Now that my family are no more i want you to take the silent of my family away from me for i believe that if you are with me i can't think of my family any more i will still let you know that you are mine forever and am yours forever.Grateful if you can
find a place in your heart to accept my proposal .
I wait to hear from you urgently
Thanks
best regards
Sandra.



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