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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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Kamara Family <r-p702@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <kamarafamily_02@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:19:46 -0500
Subject: From Raphael Kamara


>From Raphael KamaraPrivate and ConfidentialAbidjan - Côte d'Ivoire. My Dearest One, Please, permit me to inform you of my desire of going into long time relationship and financial transaction for our mutual benefits. It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I and my junior sister,intend to establish in your country. Though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life. I am Raphael Kamara, the only son of late Chief Vincent Kamara, from Sierra Leone. My sources of your contact gave me the courage and confidence to rely on you. My father was Gold Agents in Sierra Leone.Before the death of my father on 20th February 2003 in a private hospital here in Freetown he called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of USD$ 15million in fix deposit account in Bank here in Abidjan that he used my name as his beloved son for the next of kin in depositing the fund. And that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose. I humbly seek for your assistance, to help us to transfer this money in your account for investment, and to serve as guardian of this fund, since we are still a student, to make arrangement for me to come over to your country to enable you plan for the investment to further my education. Thanks as you made up your heart to help an orphan like us. 1). Real estate2). The transport industry3). Five star hotel

If you can be of an assistance to us we will be pleased to offer to you 20% Of the total fund while the balance will be invested by you. Please, I urge you to make this transaction a confidetiallity within your hearth for security purposes. I await your soonest response. Respectfully yours,Raphael Kamara
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