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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)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "million 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)
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• 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.
  • sandrabambam4me@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:10:34 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Please,
_i_need_to_talk_to_you_because_i_need_your_assistance_and_guidance?=


Hello Sir/Madam,
With Due Respect. I got your email via yahoo friends in my search for assistance regarding my family predicaments. I want you to know that this mail is from my heart the lord bears my witness.
I'm Miss Sandra Bambam Boka from Ivory Coast. I am contacting you because I need your assistance in the management's investment of a sum of money that my late father Mr. Bambam Boka left for me before he died. This money is total (USD 6.5 million American Dollars) deposited with a bank in Abidjan before he further deposited the fund in the vault of a Security company in London, as been owned by his foreign business partner (Open Beneficiary) of which the Beneficiary will be identified with the deposit reference and transaction code and my confirmation as the only daughter of the decease.
My father was a very rich cocoa farmer back home in Abidjan; he was poisoned by his business colleagues of which they are trying to influence me when i came back from South Africa immediately he died. I want you to stand as my guardian and appointed beneficiary of the fund deposited by my father and receive the money in your country since I am only 19 years now an orphaned alone.
Please, I will like you to reply to this email so that I will tell you all the information regarding the fund and the payment slip before the fund was further transfer to UK ,so that this money will be transferred to your account before making traveling to join you in your country to continue my education and get life partners who will be like a brother ,father and a husband to me.

Below are the information needed from you.

1. Your name:

2. Home address:

3. Telephone/fax:

4. Occupation:

5.Age:
I am waiting for your urgent reply through this mail email address: (sandrabambam4me@yahoo.com)
Remain Blessed.
miss sandra bambam


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