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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "PETER BONGO" <pet_bongo1@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:41:43 +0100
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam,

Dear Sir/Madam,
May this mail find you well.
It is a pleasure to send this email to you with all hope that you will
assist us for we are orphans and we are really suffering in the asylum camp
in Cote D'Ivoire.

Our late father General Solomon Bongo of Liberia by name deposited the sum
of 15m usa dollars with a bank here in Cote D'Ivoire and shortly before his
public execution on the 17th of May 2002, he told me about it, should in
case he is no more and he gave me all the legal document covering the
deposited fund " THE CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT/LODGMENT RECEIPT AND THE
AGREEMENTORY LETTER."

Now both i and my younger sister Vivien have been abandon to our own fate as
others have been abandon too and we want you to assist us transfer this fund
to your account provided that you will not betray us.
I promise to give you 20% of the fund. All that is required of you is to
send me your banking informations as the director of remittance department
told me in confidence such as
1. Your real name and country,
2. The name of your bank where you want the fund to be transferred,
3. Your account number and account name,
4. Your private telephone and fax number for easy comunincations concerning
the transaction.

With the above informations of your, i will submit them to the bank and
introduce you to the banker as my late fathers foreign business partner and
sole beneficiary of the deposited fund. Please once the money is transferred
into your designated bank account you will send us some money so that both i
and my younger sister Vivien will come over to your country for onward
investment of the fund.
I hope to here from you as soon as possible.

Thanks and may the good Lord bless you as you pray over this transaction to
assist us with a faithful and sincere heart.

Yours sincerely,
PETER BONGO.

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