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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:
  • "monrovia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Miss Sandra Williams <m_sw0058@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <san_w101@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:19:40 +0000
Subject: From: Miss Sandra



From: Miss Sandra
I am writing you this letter with due respect and heart full of tears I need your
help. I'm Miss.Sandra Williams the only Daughter of late Mr and Mrs Martin Williams.My
father was a very Rich and wealthy Gold Trader in Monrovia the Capital of Liberia in
West Africa.His business associates poisoned him while my mother died when I was a little girl of
19 years.
He deposited ($11 MILLION U.S DOLLARS) in a bank here in Cote D'ivoire.He made this
money from the sales of Gold,He also told me that it was because of this money he was
poisoned while on a business trip with business associates and he instructed me to
look for a foreign partner who will help me transfer this money out of republic of
Cote Divoire and invest it for me, Help me to transfer this money to your country
before this people who killed my father will kill me,they are after my life and they
want to kill me and collect this money from me, that is why I'm now hiding my self
here in republic of Cote Divoire.
Please I need your urgent help.I will love part of this money to be invested in
kingdom work like CHARITY FOUNDATION where the needy and the helpless will be
recieving help. I have rrived to this decission after passing through what I just
passed through in the Cote D'Ivoire United Nations safe keeping troup Camp. I hope you
will not betray the trust I have on you ecause this money is my only hope in this
life, and moreover you will also help me to come over to your country were I will
settle down and continue my ducation while you invest the money as I have directed in
all maner of truthfulness.Yours faithfullySandra Williams.
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