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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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: <landra_kamara@centrum.cz>
Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 22:23:23 +0200
Subject: for project in your country


Dear Sir
Happy new year to you and your family.
I am MRS LANDRA KAMARA the wife of late former Director of diamond and mining corporation of Sierra-Leone,Chief Vincent R. Kamara, Due to death of husband i am contacting you to asume my late husband foriegn business partner ABROAD because my husband deposited money in a bank in EUROPE and he told them that the fund belong to his foriegn partner for safety reason.
My late husband make this fund from the over influencing of price of sales of diamond and he deposited the money with a bank in EUROP by fixed deposit form,and he attached a strict note that the fund should be transfered to his foreign partner for an investment.
it is on this note that I am contacting you, i want you to contact the bank where this money is deposited with the below information so the bank will transfer the money to your account as the beneficiary because my husband told the bank that the money should only be transfer to his foriegn partner and he has no partner that is why i am contacting you
1) Account name
2) Account number
3) Bank address, telephone and fax number.
For you to assist me transfer this money in your private bank account, the amount is (Eight Million Dollars only) $8 Million Dollars. I am compensating you with 15% of the total amount,please all my hope is on you to get this fund transfer and I really want you to help me invest this fund in your country, were their is stablility of   Government,political and
economic welfare.
Please, i will like you to reply me urgently so that i will know if you can handle the transfer for me and i would like you to keep this transaction as a top secret because i will not like to expose my self to any other person accept you till we have the fund in your account and invest it i am in abidjan cote d'ivoire now as i am contacting you and i need your urgent help and i will also like you to forward your private telephone number me for easy communication between us.
I am waiting for your urgent reply.
Yours Sincerely.
Mrs Kamara.
 

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