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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:
  • "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: nena.donald@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:22:22 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Greetings=20From=20=3A=20Nena=20Donald=2E?=

Greetings From : Nena Donald.
Address : Rue 152 Cocody Abidjan
Cote d' Ivoire West Africa.

Hello,
It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration, since I cannot
be able to see you face to face at first. Being the only daughter of my
father, late Dr. Frank Donald from Sierra-Leone Africa (WA) I am 20 years
of age. My father was limited liability Diamond and Gold merchant in Freetown
Sierra-Leone before his untimely death.
After his business trip to abidjan to nagociate on a good investment business
he wanted to invest in abidjan. A week after he came back from abidjan,
he got anaccident with my mother of which my mother died instantly but my
father died after five days in a private hospital on that faithful afternoon,
I didn´t know that my father was going to leave me after I had lost my mother,
but before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die.
He my father, (MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he disclosed to me that
he deposited sum of $7,000,000,00 Dollars (Seven Million u.s Dollars) in
a bank here in abidjan. He said that the money was meant for his Diamond
and Gold company he wanted to establish in abidjan.
He single handed me the deposit certificate and instructed me to seek for
a reliable and trust worthy business partner for my life time investment
abroad. Now I have succeeded in locating the bank here in abidjan also confirmed
that the money was there with most honest and confidentiality.
Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help me transfer this money out
from abidjan to your safe account abroad so that we should invest this money
in any meaningful lucrative business in your country because this is my
only hope in life.
I am willing to offer you 10% of the total fund if only you can help me
out of my present predicament. Awaiting anxiously to hear from you so that
we can discuss the modalities of this transaction. I await your immediate
response for further details.
Yours sincerely.
Nena Donald.

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