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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:
  • "stay blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
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Fraud email example:

From: jacobs happiness <mrshappiness_s_jacobs1@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <mrshappiness_s_jacobs@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:08:41 +0100
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE



DEAREST ONE!
This proposal to you is strictly confidential, with due respect.Since we have not known ourselves or met previously. Despite that,I am constrained to write you this letter because of the urgency of it.I am Mrs.happiness jacobs from Sierra Leone, the wife of lateMaxwell.K.jacobs, the oil and gas contractor in West Africa rigion, my late husband died in the Auto crash in Benin some years ago. My daughter and I are trapped in obnoxious custom and traditional norms.
We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in the hands of my late husband's family, simply because I did not bear a male child for my late husband. My late husband's family imposed on me a tradition, that all my late husband had, wealth belongs to his brothers/family. And myself is to be remarried by his immediate younger brother which I vehemently refused. They have taken all that I suffered with my husband to acquire including treasures, houses and his bank particular seized by them. I have now escape out of the country to secure refugee camp in Benin with my child.
Thank God, I had with me the Code information about my late husband deposited money value the sum of (USD9.8 M) with a private security and finance company here in Benin for safe deposit where he operate conforward an offsore account, It has therefore, become very necessary and urgent to contact someone, a foreigner like you to help me to receive this funds overseas in a reliable bank Account and to help invest the money on our behalf as well.
This is why I have contacted you to help me receive these funds as soon as possible.
My daughter and I have resolved to give you 30% of the total sum.
This is all me and my daughter have got to live on.Please, I have reposed my confidence in you and hope you will not disappoint me. I look forward to your urgent response, including your phone/ mobile number.
Stay blessed.Mrs.happiness jacobs
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