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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: williams afarouk <william_afaa2@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <wwill_alfarouk008@yahoo.it>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:03:52 +0200
Subject: WILLIAMS AND SUZAN



WILLIAMS AND SUZAN ABIDJAN REP OF IVORY COAST
ATTN: Dearest,
I know my message will come to you as a Surprise. First of all, I will like to wish you a Compliment of the season. I am William Afarouk and I am writing to you this mail together with my younger Sister Suzan Afarouk from Abidjan Rep of Cote 'Ivoire. We hope you will Permit us to inform you of our desire of going into business relationship with you,and
decided to contact you for this humble assistance.We prayed over this issue before contacting you and we beleive that you will be a trustworthy and God fearing person and will not betray us when this money is transfered into your account.
Our father was a very wealthy Business merchant , He was into cacao,Diamond and Gold business in the economic capital of Ivory coast, Our father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip.
Our mother died when we were still very young and since then our father took us so special. Before the death of our father on May 2003 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called us on his bed side and told us that he deposited the sum of US$ 18,300,000.00 Million, in of the Prime Bank here,He told us that he deposited this money for onward transfer to a foreign account for investment purpose Abroad.

He also explained to us that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates . He Advice us to seek for a trustworthy Person as a foreign partner in a country of our choice where we will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel management after we finish our Education.
Please, We got your contact and because of the current political situation in this country now ,we are humbly seeking for your able assistance to assist us in transferring this inheritance abroad in your desgnated account in your country. Please we are Sincerely beging you with the name of our Almighty God to assist in the following ways(1)To provide a bank account into which this money would be transferred to.
(2) To serve as a guardian of this inheritance since we are still very young to handle this money. (3)To Help us to Relocate over to your country to continue our Education and arrange together with you on how to invest this money in your country. We are willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after the successful transfer of this money into your nominated account.
Please, Kindly get back to us through this our mail on this for more discussion and modalities of this transaction and we are willing to offer to you the 15% of the total Money and also a negotiable percentage for the investment project. We have with us all the documents regarding this deposit and will send it to you together with the first page of our international passport and our personal pictures on confirming to us your interest to assist us in this transaction.

We will also like to have your own personal identity because we believe that this will help pave way for us to know each other very well before meeting in person. We must let you know that this transaction is 100% risk free and in no way conneted with any illegal transaction,Please help us to get out of this terrible situation and our Almigthy will bless you. Anticipating to hear from you soon. Thanks and Allah bless. Best regards, WILLIAMS AND SUZAN
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