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

Fraud email example:

From: Promise Kudou <promisekudou1@yahoo.co.th>
Reply-To: promisekudou45@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:48:15 +0700 (ICT)
Subject: From: Promise Kudou


From: Promise Kudou
Email. (promise_kudou@yahoo.fr)
Dear, one
Please, do not be embarrassed with this letter as we have not seen or
met before. My name is Promise Kudou I am the only issue of my father
Late Mr. Paul Kudou, a wealthy cocoa merchant in the Northern part of
Cote dIvoire, who was killed during war. My late father deposited the
sum of US$5,500,000 (FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND, UNITED STATES
DOLLARS) Usd with a bank here in Cote dIvoire before his death. Dear,
due to political situation in Cote dIvoire,
I want you to assist me to transfer this money to your country and
invest it in any available business line of your choice, as well help
me to come over to your country to continue my education.
Please dear, reply me urgently so that I will introduce you to the
bank director as my family foreign partner as well my guardian for
the transfer of this money to your bank account. I wait to welcome
your reply as soon as posible. Thanks a million times for your concern
and your capable assistance is highly needed in this transaction,
basically due to your reputations and your enlightenment of handling
issues to a standard solutions.
Thanks Alot.
Promise Kudou,



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