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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "alisadonna0013 Gazeta.pl" <alisadonna0013@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: alisadonna@mail.md
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:40:36 +0100
Subject: Dear Friend,Please reply me urgently


*Dear Friend,

Greetings to you in the name of God.I am Mrs Alisa Donna from
serrie-lone,the many years war zone country but i am presently writting you
from Cotonou.I beleive by God's grace I got your contact in confidence After
asking for God's directions,Despart I never disclose to any body the reason
why I needed your contact for security reasons.

I wish to know if you can assist us in both removing and handling both our
fund of (FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATES
DOLLARS)US.$5.500.000.00.and invest Presently in your country in any good
business,the fund and gold is still in the Security Company,where my late
husband deposited it for safe keeping and my husband never disclosed the
content to the Security Company, he only decleard it as "personal/family
Valuable treasure"because he do not want the company to know the content of
the boxes.

Since you are involved in associated business in your country, I and my son
will love if we will sincerely invest our fund in your business and you help
us look for a buyer of gold over there,because we do not know any body
overseas,and we don' t want to do anything in our country serrie-lone or
Benin Republic where i am now with my son.

I and my son are in need of a good God fearing person who will assist us
very well in this fund that we are about to invest overseas, where we will
invest it properly with the person's advice.Actually I do not want
involvement of any one from my country or Benin Republic because of our
safety,because my late beloved husband family members want to take away
every thing from me and my son since the death of my husband.If you can
assist us receive this consignment fund from the security company,kindly
send to me your below informations,to enable us to get you approved as our
beneficiary,because we want to finalize this in five or six days from today.
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*1.YOUR FULL NAME.....*

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*2.YOUR CUNTRY........*

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*3.PHONE NUMBER..........*

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*4.OTHER INFORMATIONS.......*

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*Please let me know if you are interested to assist us so that I will send
to you phone number of my son for you to call him and discuss on the
percentage.*

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*I wait for your urgent response and acceptance to assist me in this mutual
benefit project.*

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*Yours faithfully, *


*From Sister Alisa Dona
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