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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)
  • "million us dollars" (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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Loveth Donatus" <loveth_donat@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: lovethdonat2@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:31:47 +0100
Subject: With Love From Miss Loveth

Hello My Dear,

Good day to you, I hope fine? Dear am writing this mail with due respect and heartful of tears, since we have not known or met ourselves previously I am asking for your assistance, i have gone through your profile and will be very glad if you can render me assistance to my situation now, I got your contact from the Ecowas Infomation Center in Senegal. My sources of your contact gave me the courage and confidence.

It is 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 success sometimes in life.

My name is Princess Loveth Donatus With my Younger brother, The Son & Daughter of (Late Chief Donatus Freeman) Who lost his life in the course of the crisis in my country Cote D'ivoire on the 7th of March last year on his way to the company ( Nestle Food Plc) . My father willed in cash, the sum of $25 Million US Dollars which he deposited in a Fixed/Suspence account in one of the bank here in west Africa.


I am presently confronted with a request to invest the total fund the sum of $25 Million United State Dollars in your country,the funds belong legitimately to my late father with enabling conditions for the release of the fund which are as follows:

(1) That we must be 22 years or above.
(2) That upon request for the release of the fund, there must be evidence of investment intentions especially outside the west Africa,.

Against this background I am seeking your indulgence to respond to me indicating if you are capable and wiling to partner with us in the investment of the total fund, in a covert expedient and confidential manner.

In this case I are interested in Industry and real estate, and your advice will be much valuable and highly regarded in these and other business areas which may be profitable to all the perties involve.

Your swift response will be appreciated, and I will like you to include a brief profile of yourself/business, along with your complete contact information in your response.
Thank you so much and I look forward to doing business with you.

Yours Truly,
Loveth Donatus & Brother.

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