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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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: kevin morgana <kevin_morgana@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 05:31:07 -0800 (PST)
Subject: A CRY FOR HUMBLE HELP


Derast One

I am kevin and my younger sister called linda Morgan
of the same parents from Sierre-Leone country.
We lost our parent and our late father Chief Williams
Morgan made a deposit of money with a bank here in a
fixed deposit and the amount is USD5.5M dollars on a
bank here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire west africa.

We are presently in Abidjan where the money was been
deposited and I have the documents backing up the
money at the bank for your claims and our late father
told us incase if he died that we should look for
someone who has a legitimate bank account abroad to
help us claim the money as we are young ones,We have
the ID Card issued us from the United Nation here in
Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire west afirca on our arrival as refugess and
these will serves you as a proof of who we are.
We believe you as an advanced person that you will not
betray the trust we impose on you at the end of the
transfer into your personal bank account.

Please we need you to send to us the followings,
1.your full Name.
2.Your private phone and fax number
3.Your banking information
All this i will submit to the bank for the transfer of
the money to your bank account which you are going to
send.

Bear in mind that this transaction remains
confindential to yourself alone.
Based on this we contacted you for an assistance,So
that we can front you as the beneficiary of the
deposited money USD$5.5M to the bank so that you can
have contacts with the bank for the bank to make the
transfer into the account you are going to nominate.
10%
of the total sum will be offered to you for your
assistance, while 5% will be set aside for any
expenses that might arise during the transfer.

Thanks and remaine bless.
Waiting for your reply.
Yours sincerely
kevin linda Morgana







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