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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:
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: <masy_bangu1002000@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: masy_bangu1111@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 08:47:10 +0900 (JST)
Subject: please assist us

Miss Masy Bangura
Abidjan Ivoiry Coast
West Africa


Dearest ,
It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I and my Brother (Henry) intend to establish in your country .I am M/s Masy Bangura the Duagther to Late Dr David Bangura From Sierra Leone in West Africa. Though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding
in succeed sometimes in life. There is amount of Eighteen million U.S dollars ($18,000,000.00) in a trucks Box which my late father Deposited in a private security company here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire before his death.

Now I and my brother have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security and political reasons.We want you to help us and retrieve the box and transfer these Funds into your personal account in your country for investment purposes on these
areas:

1, Five Star Hotel ). Real Estate business or any of your choice that will profite us in return.
If you can be of an assistance to us we will be pleased to offer to you 15% Of the total fund. I await your soonest response.
Respectfully yours,
Masy and Henry



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