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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: anita kwanzi <lovinganita201@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: lovinganita1x2006@myway.com
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:26:40 -0800 (PST)
Subject: PLEASE RESCUE ME,VERY URGENT


Dearest One,

My warmest greeting to you in the name of the Lord.I am writing this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously. I am Anita Kwanzi am an orphan my mum died when i was just 6 years old and I inherited this sum from my late father who died in recent crisis in Cote d'Ivoire. I wish to request for your assistance in though I have not met with you before but I believe one has to risk,confounding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.

There is this amount of money Three million seven hundred thousand US.dollas($3,700,000) deposited by my late father in a security company in EUROPE before he was assasinated by unknown people suspected to be his fellow business associates. Right now I am all alone in this world without relations and right now I have decided with the assistance of my pastor to invest this amount in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security purposes.

I want you to assist me in retrieving this money from the security company. Due to the up rising of political crisis in africa. please i would want you to warned that the security company did not know the content of the metallic box deposited by my father because he deposited it as the family valuables. Have in mind that your effort will never be in vain.

You will still be the manager of the fund till I finish my educational carrier. So please consider this and get back to me as soon as possible so that we can proceed without delay.

Thanking you in anticipation of your urgent response
Thanks you.

Regards,
Anita


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