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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: Divine Kamara <divine_kamara17@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <divine_kamara2007@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:01:20 +0000
Subject: Miss Divine;My Detailed Information.



From: Miss Divine Kamara,

Dear respected One,

I am Miss Divine Kamara 17 years old and the only child of my late parents late Mr and Mrs Leonard Kamara. It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your country. Though I have not met with you before, but considering the recent political instabilities in my country, I believe one has to risk confiding in success sometimes in life regards to my recent and present condition after the death of my father caused by the Toxic Waste being dumped in our Country on the 19th August 2006. My father was one of the casualties that finally lead him to death on 17th September 2006 after much treatment in the private Hospital here in Abidjan.

My father being a wealthy Oil dealer and a contractor on vast Estate building investment and selling of houses before he died, may his soul rest in peace; there is amount of $3.7 million Usd which he deposited in an african bank here in Abidjan Cote d'lvoire in the year 2005 in a Fixed Account before he died, actually I have all the related deposit documents with me for references and today, I have being to the bank and the director advised me to get my foreign partner contacts their bank for the fund transferring.

Now I have decided to invest these fund in your country or anywhere safe enough for security and political reasons. l want you to help me claim and retrieve this money from the bank because it was declared as foreign investment project funds and transfer it into your personal or company's bank account in your country for investment purposes as declared by my father on these areas below :

1). Estate Building Projects.2). Hotel Managements.3). Mechanised Agriculture.

If you can be of any assistance to me, kindly please let me know what to offer to you for your noble assistance towards receiving this fund in your bank account and its investment in your Country; and what will be your annual percentage after the investment?.

Thanks for your consideration and hope to hear from you soon as you received this mail.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Divine Kamara.
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