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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:
  • "monrovia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "David Hamas Jr" <davekwuom1@hotmail.fr>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 14:31:07 +0000
Subject: David Hamas Jr Liberia

From David Hamas Jr +22506444030
Abidjan Republic of Cote D'Ivoire.West Africa


Dear,
I am writting you this letter with due respect and heart full of tears
I need your help, I got your name and contact from a trust-worthy person
who assured me of your integrity and that you will help me to transfer this
money

I am MR David Hamas Jr the only Son of late Mr and Mrs Hamas David
My father was a very Rich and wealthy Gold Trader in Monrovia the Capital
of Liberia in West Africa ,
I want to let you know that my father was poisoned by his business
associates while my mother died when i am little and my father took me
so special because I am his only son. before the death of my father on
13th september 2005 in a hospital here in cote d'ivoire, he secretly told me
that he has the sum of (USD $6 MILLION U.S DOLLARS ) which he deposited in a
bank here in Cote D'ivoire. he made this money from the sales of Gold,

He also told me that it was because of this money he was poisoned by
his business patners while on a business trip with them and he instructed
me to look for a foreign partner who will help me transfer this money out of
republic of Cote Divoire and invest it for me, my purpose of contacting
you is for you to help transfer this money to your country before this
people who kill my father will kill me ,

this people who kill my father are after my life and they want to kill
me and collect the this money from me , that is why I'm now hiding my self
here in republic of Cote Divoire so that they will not see me, please i need
your urgent help, Tell me how much percentage you will take in the total
money of the $6, Million Dollars to help me in transfering this money to
your
account.

but you have to assure me that you will help me fully to transfer the
money to your account , l hope you will not betray the trust i have on you
because this money is my only hope in this life ,and moreover you will also
help me to come over to your country were i will settel down for my life and
invest this money for me.

i can assure you there is No Risk involved the money is an inheritance
from my late father, my private mail contact


I am waiting to hear from you,
David Hamas Jr
+22506444030

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