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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:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Favor Brown <favbrown123@yahoo.co.th>
Reply-To: favorbrown@live.fr
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:39:37 +0700 (ICT)
Subject: Beloved One


Beloved One,

I am Miss Favor Brown,l am very honest and descent girl and after reading your profile,l decided to let you my plight here,l am supposed to be in school like others but my life changed when l lost my parents.I am 19 years of age, I'm the only daughter of the late Mr. Calistus Brown. My father was Gold Agent in Accra (Ghana).Before his sudden death on 20th March 2008 in a private hospital, he called me on his bedside and told me about USD$6 million he deposited with one interior bank in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire and he handed me all the vital documents of the money as his only survival beloved daughter and he used my name as the next of kin in depositing the money. He advises me that I should seek for a foreign partner in any country of my choice to invest the money.I humbly seek for your assistance, to help me receive the money and help me invest the money in a good business, and to serve as my guardian, since I am still a student, to make arrangement for me to come over to
your country to further my education. Thanks as you made up your mind to help me and God will bless you.
Please, I urge you to make this transaction confidentiality within your heart for security purposes and I will forward to you all the vital documents of the deposited money.

Yours sincerely,
Ms Favor Brown


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