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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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  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "MRS GRACE WILLIAMS" <mrs_grace_williamss@msn.com>
Reply-To: mrsgrace_williams1@yahoo.com.sg
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 06:37:54 +0000
Subject: MRS GRACE

Good Day,

I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to you,I hope you will not
be embarrassed receiving this mail as we have not had previous
correspondences on this.I decided to contact you based on the clearance and
assurance i got from source that linked me to you.

I hope you will not impede the trust and confidence I repose in you.In brief
introduction, I am Mrs.Grace Williams, an Ivorian National. The wife of
(Dr.Martin Williams) My husband was a very rich Wood and Cocoa merchant,
based in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned
to death by his business associates on one of their outing to
discussion a business deal.

I had earlier lost my mother in car crash in the year 2000 along San Pedro
Road. Before the death of my father on September 26th, 2003 in a private
hospital where he has been admitted. He, my father called me secretly to his
bed side and told me that he kept a sum of $8,328,000 ( Eight Million three
Hundred and Twenty Eight Thousand United States Dollars) in a Fix suspense
account in a Finance House in ASIA. that he uses my names as the next of
kin in the fund.

He also explained to me that it was because of this money that he was
poisoned by his business partners and that I should seek for a foreign
partner in a country of my choice where I would transfer this money and used
it for an investment such as (real estate
management or stock market). After my father's death,I was faced with many
dangers from hostile relatives and business associates and couple with the
war in my country between the Government and the rabel.I have abandoned my
country came to Dakar Senegal where I
took refuge at the Dr. Faye Refugee Camp in Dakar Senegal.

I succeeded in confirming the availability of the fund at the Finance
Company in Europe, but my Asylum condition does not allow me to travel and
couple that i do not know how to handle the money because of my age.I am
appealing to you to help me.

Thanking you for your understanding.I look forward to
your earliest reply to my email.

Yours truly

Mrs Grace Williams

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