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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)
  • "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: Racheal Mamadou <rachmamadou@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:12:20 +0200
Subject: Good Day Respectful One,



Good Day Respectful One, I deemed it a respect and honour as well as privi=
ledge to write you in these important and urgent letter , on my deep convi=
ction about you, after my deligent search for a honest and trustworthy som=
eone of which I have choosen you to assist me for the transfer of an inher=
itance,which I inherited from my late father that was poisoned to death by=
his bussiness associates.
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My name is Miss Racheal Mamadou, I am 19yrs old, a native of Sierra-leone =
in West African region in the local districk of Konobo and am the only chi=
ld of late Dr.Mahdi Mamadou , my late father is a Diamond Director in the =
Republic of Sierra-leone. But before his death in a private hospital here =
in Abidjan,Ivory coast, he told me of a fixed deposit of US$8,000,000 he d=
eposited with a prime bank in Abidjan,Ivory coast which he made me the nex=
t of kin, my mother died when I was two yrs old.
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I have met the bank manager and declared to him my intention to transfer t=
his fund out of Africa, as adviced to me by my father for my security and =
of the money,which I want to use to further my education overseas,and he i=
s asking me for my foreign guardian,in order to terminate the Fixed invest=
ement agreement and release of the fund,as signed in the Agreement Bond wi=
th the Bank Authority and my father in case of sudden death,which I need y=
our assistance to present you to the bank as my foreign guardian for the t=
ransfer of this money into your account.
=20
Please remember the confidentiality and urgency my mail required while I =
expect to read from you.

Yours truly, Racheal Mamadou.
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