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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:
  • "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: doris kone <doris_kci@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: doriskone@live.fr
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:02:39 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Dear,

















Dear,
 
I wish to solicit your help in investing my fund in your country and our ressettlement, I am happy to write and send this message to you. I hope you will consider and give it urgent and favourable reply. 
 
My name is Mrs Doris Kone, a citizen of Sierra-Leone and the wife of late Mr Johnson Kone who before his death was the manager of Sierra-Leone Gold and Diamond Corporation ( SGDC). I hope you are aware of the war going on in my country for the past five years now. It was in one of the attack by the rebels that led to the killing of my dear husband and two children leaving I and my son David Kone as the only surviving son because we went to a funeral when we hear of the killing of my husband and children we felt unsafe in the country and we managed to enter Abidjan -Cote d' Ivoire through a fisher man who operate a fishing vessel through and fro in a coastal river between Cote d' Ivoire and Sierra Leone. Please with us is (USD10.5) TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS contained in one metalic box and presently deposited in security company as family valuables.
 
My aim of contacting you is to seek your able assistance as a front in transfering this fund abroad in your account then as a business developer, you also help us to wisely invest the money in areas you deem lucrative and finally obtain a residential permit for us to stay confortably there. 
 
Please for God sake be merciful to us and agree to help us transfer this money into your account abroad. We agree to give you 20% to see this done for us.We will send to you the proof of this transaction as soon as we favourably hear from you and please we implore you to treat this transaction all secrecy and confidentiality for security reasons.
May God bless you in abundance as you show mercy to those that need mercy. Best Regards,
Mrs Doris Kone 

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