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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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: <jadetisss15@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:00:26 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Urgent Assistance.



Dearest one,

It's my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which i and my son Jonathan all intend to establish in your country,Though I have not met with you before but I believe one has to risk, confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life. I am from the western region of darfur in Sudan but has taken asylum here in Cote d'Ivoire.

My husband late Williams adeti was the former chairman of national cotton corporation died as a result of power struggle between the president Umar al-Bashir and the ousted parliament speaker Hasan al-Turabi. Before the death of my husband he had a trunk metal box of US$12.5 million dollars ( Twelve million five hundred thousand dollars ) deposited in the custody of a private security company in Abidjan, Cote D' Ivoire as personal effects belonging to his foreign partner in your country for security purposes. The company did not know the real of the box as he registered it as family valuables (personal effects).


Now i have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security purposes. I want you to help me to transfer this fund to your country for investment purposes on the followings below:

1).Hotel industry

2). Housing.

If you can be of an assistance to i will be pleased to offer to you 20% Of the total fund.
I await your soonest response.
Extend my warmest regards to your entire family.

Thank you and God bless you.

Sincerely
Mrs Josephine Adeti.




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