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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: <adetijxxx2@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 04:56:10 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From: Miss Josephine Adeti



Dearest one,

It's my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which i intend to establish in your country,Though I have not met with you before but I believe one has to risk, confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.

My Father Late Mr Williams Adeti who was a cocoa merchant was poisoned to death by his business partners in Abidjan few days after returning from one his business trips abroad. My mother died when i was very young while giving birth to her second child. Before my father died he told me about a certain deposit of US$6.5 million dollars which he deposited in a bank here in Abidjan and instructed me to look for a foreign investment partner in a country of my choice to transfer the money in case he fails to survive from the poison. Now my father is no more and i have decided to follow his instructions to transfer the money to your country. I will need your honest assistance to help me as a foreign guardian/partner to transfer and invest the money in your country.
If you can be of an assistance to me i will be pleased to offer to you 20% Of the total fund and i will give you the contact informations of the bank where the money is deposited so that you contact on my behalf to transfer the money to your offshore account for investments.

I await your soonest response.
Extend my warmest regards to your entire family.

Thank you and God bless you.

Sincerely
Miss Josephine Adeti.








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