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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:
  • "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.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • mll_jane@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: awa jane <miss_jn5@yahoo.com.br>
Reply-To: jane_awa@africamail.com
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:58:27 -0300 (ART)
Subject: HELLO


Avenue 12 Rue 47 ABIDJAN
DANANI REFUGEE
CAMP, ABIDJAN
REPUBLIC OF COTE-D'IVOIRE

Please contact us through this our private EMAIL ADDRESS.(mll_jane@yahoo.fr)

Dear,

Good Day and God bless as I introduce my self to you with all faith and hope you will understand me and not to betray me at the end.
I have the intention to introduces myself to you My name is JANE ADAMS the only daughter and my brother's name is DENIS ADAMS the only son .We are the children of late CHIEF BENSON ADAMS. I am 18 years old, our father died about 1 year ago on the 5th of April 2005, in a gold mine in MENDE, Republic of Serria Leone . He was into legal gold mining, he has succeeded in saving $7.2 millions dollars (seven million two hundredthousand U.S. Dollars) during his Business on Gold, before he went on a trip to Republic of Cote D' Ivoire near by country to our country to save his money for security reasons because of the political problem in our country. Unfortunately he is dead and I will not want the money to
be kept like that without any investment purpose . so I am contacting you with full trust that you will not let us down .

We need help from you to help us transfer this money to your country for investment and
who will be sincere to invert us to his country with out cheating us or doing bad to us on my arrival with my brother, I'm willing to give you 30% of the money after the transfer of the moneyand 5% extra for any expense you incurs in this transaction, please mail us immediately urgent to know your stands before looking else where you're the first person we are contacting and also send your phone number as soon as possible to enable us to beat the said time.

Now permit us to ask these few questions:-

1. Can you honestly help us as your own person?

2. Can we completely trust you?

3. Hope our percentage offer is good accepted by you?

Please, Treat this email confidential and get back to us as soon as possible.

Yours Sincerely,

Jane and Denis

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