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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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Fraud email example:

From: "mawa salif" <msalif@msn.com>
Reply-To: m.salif@gala.net
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:17:41 +0000
Subject: From: Mrs. Mawa Salif

From: Mrs. Mawa Salif
08 BP 25687 Abidjan 05
Avenue 23 Rue 33 Barree Benjevail,
Cote D'Ivoir West Africa


Dearest One,

Please permit me to inform you of my desire of going into a business
relationship with you, after praying for direction to a honest person who
can help me out of this condition I and my family are into, I have not
review this to anyone accept you, due to it's esteeming nature and I hope
you are a trustworthy person I can build this transaction with.

I am Mrs. Mawa Salif from Ivory Coast a widow with two sons, I lost my
husband a couple of years ago, My husband was a serving director of Cocoa
exporting board here in this country before he was poisoned to death by his
business associates on one of their outings on a business trip.

Before the died of my husband, he secretly called me and told me about the
money he deposited in a bank here as an investment fund with his partner
abroad which he did not tell how the person is, in tune of (US$15,000,000.00
dollars) My husband told me that he deposited this money for importation of
cocoa processing machine.

Please I need your help to retrieve this money out from the bank here to
your country on your account for safe keeping so that it will be secured for
my children for an investment purpose as I did not have any one here to help
me out.

Note, that after the transfer of this money to your account you will help us
come over to your country for our future also I will like to invest this
money in your country for the bright future of my two sons. I will give you
20% while 80% will be for our inheritance and for the investment purpose.

I will like you to keep this transaction confidential to avoid enemies of
progress until it comes into your account and for the safety of this money.
Understand that I will want your presence here for the conclusion of this
transfer with the bank it will help us know all the fact on this deposit.

I wait for your reply urgently on this matter for more details.

Thanks and remain blessed.

Mrs. Mawa Salif

Please call me through this number: 0022507915210

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