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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)
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22507824898 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Sankara Mrs Mariam <mrsmariam_sankara1@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:29:26 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Mrs Sankara Mariam


My Dear ,

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprised since we have not seen each other before , but i know that after my praying you will not betray the turst i am about to repose on you. i am Mrs Mariam Sankara the wife of LATE MR James Sankara from liberia who was killed by the former president Charles Taylor gunmen due to his political ambisions the evil president also gave order to confuscate all his assets encluding his bank accounts, since his death life has become miserable to our farmily, but we are lucky that he made fixe deposite of $18.3 million united states dollers outside the country which i and my son Emmanuel has the document covering it .

i am soliciting for your help to provied a bank account where this fund will be transfed to and invested into a profited venture such as realestate , hotel business or gas station in your conutry . you will also help my son to get a resident visa to be in your counry with out any problem.

we have decided to compansate you with the sum of $2.3 million for any of your effort in getting things done for us . you will also save as the director of any exterblishment which will be done with part of this fund in your country. we are now as a refuge in a local hotel abidjan i will like you to contact me and my son Emmanuel on this hotel room telephone number 00225 07824898 for more details about this transaction if you are honest and caperble in handling the transfer.

we are hoping to hear from your urgenty please .
thanks and god bless.
Mrs Mariam Sankara.


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