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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Theist Jefferson" <theist225@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 13:09:57 +0000
Subject: Hello

* *Theist Jefferson**

Hello, 

This is Theist Jefferson,i know you might be very  surprise to receive my letter however,i am upcoming muscians which i need to come up but have no one to encourage me, that is why i need your intension to help me,well am 20, male, and i believe am talented full of music around me,thrillion of my best  into the Music God know's that, and i believe in music all my life.

Let me explain myself more, well am a Nigerian but i stay in Abidjan, that is Ivory Coast in West Africa, coming to the country, were they only speak one laugauge which is Fench. will not help me into their music industry,because i do not speak and hear their laugauge, please i will like you to sponsor me to move forward, i might be strange to you but i beg you in the name of God.

When ever i listen, to the voice's though it might not  be the voice, but it also include in my music career but i believed i will be one someday i still need someone who can be with me, encouraging much into the music. i need you to help me in this, i need to see the bright of my talent shining there in America, though i might be wrong with that, but i have to explain how i feel becoz my tears everyday praying to God for my dreams to come to past.

What more can i say wating for the time for for me to be on stage although it might not be easy getting into the music industry there in America, i can assure you with GOD  i will always make you proud,with my skills my in the music. there are many more upcoming musicians like me out there hoping for their day to come to reality.
I need you to help me, please, and hope hearing from you soon.and here is my mobile phone number +22508594871

For i am Theist Jefferson* 

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