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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "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.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: marah osman <marosman209@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <mar_osman@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:19:09 +0000
Subject: An urgent Need



Barrister Marah OsmanAbidjan Cote D IvoireWest Africa

My Dear,

This message might meet you in utmost surprise, however,it's just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction.

I, am Barrister Marah Osman a personal lawyer to one later Mr.Ruth Fred Leo An American oil Contractor with the Ivoirien Solid Minerals Corporation, here in Abidjan Ivory Coast who died in an auto Crash in september 2006. later Mr. Ruth Fred leo before his untimely death, made some deposit of funds with a finance firm here and did not declare any information of any of his relatives to the said fund deposit at the time of deposit.

Where you come in is that I needed your good collaboration to pull out these funds to overseas for investments because, he left with me the deposit information and no body could come around to lay claim if not I and a foriegner in good collaboration since he did not leave any information of any of his relatives.

Kindly get back to me in order to bring you to the detail arrangement to move out the funds accross to your destination.

Kind Regards,
Barrister Marah Osman
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