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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "confidentiality of this transaction" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
  • "i will advice you " (this email uses bad English)
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Fraud email example:

From: mrs kokou williams <mrskokou200@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:18:04 +0100 (BST)
Subject: MRS KOKOU REPLIES


Dear Beloved

I am in reciept of your mail and all you said.First of all i will thank you .Sister i want you to understand my plea to you not for selfish,but it is for good of my life ,according to my late Husbanb instruction me before he died may his sool rest in peace.

I am happy for your promised to help me out and to used this money once my bank transfer it into your account to help others and invest it into a good business that will be profit.

My most happiness is that you are a Christian and also a God as i went into fasting and praying asking God to provide a God fearing person that will do this transaction with me and someone who will not sit on my money once my bank transfer it into the person account.

Please all i want is for you to follow all the instruction of me and and my bank so that they will effect the transfer immediately without delay.

For the safety of this money that i should look for a foriegn who will stand as co-beneficiary of this fund so that it can be transered to his or her foriegn account after then i will join the person for the investment of the fund.

This is why i contacted you for your urgent assistance so that this money will be transfer to your account and i will join you for the investment of the fund which you will be the care taker.

Please Sisther all i want from you is your maximum co-operation so that this will be done soon,for i went to the bank where my late husbans deposited this money and the banker told me that once the foreign patner or the co-beneficiary of the money provide his account that they will transer the money into the account.

Please i want you to forward to me your banking details so that i will go to the bank and forward it to them for the transer of the fund into your and give me your tele/fax number so that i can contact you and give you more information. and also send to you the documents issued to my late father by the bank on the day of deposit of the money.

Please this account particulars you will be sending to me should have the following.

YOUR BANK ACCOUNT NUMBERS
YOUR BANKS ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS AND FAX
NUMBERS
YOUR PRIVATE PARTICULARS
YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE NUMBERS
YOUR PRIVATE FAX NUMBERS
YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS.

Thanks for your mail regarding my plea of assistance me to transfer of fund (my inheriance from my late Husband to your account in your country.It took me time to reveal this to somebody because of my dear life and I contacted you after days of praying where God reveal to me that the only person that can help me out is someone like you as a brother and I have the beleive you are the one and do hope you are going to be nice and honest to me.


Please the confidentiality of this transaction is my ultimate concern and i do not know if you can keep secrets as i will want you to keep this transaction total secret and confidential just for the saftey of my life and the saftey of this money which is the only thing i have and my only hope in life as i do not want to loose it .

All these is my reason why i want to do this with you because I do not want to miss lead my self or to loose this fund hence all my future hope.Let me introduce myself to you .

Please Sister all my hope is on you for the tranfer of this fund,and i will advice you to begin to search for a profitable bussiness that will yeld us gain as soon as the money get into your account you send me some money for traveling ticket to meet whit you in your country.

Any arrangement you are making with the bank inform me so that i will know.I know that God has a reason for everything and also for us to me.

God bless you and your family hope to hear from you soon.Please i will like you to respond to my yahoo mail account as it is my private mail account.

Once i hear from you i will send to you the Deposit Certificate issued to my late husband by the bank on the day he deposited the money with the bank and also my photo and of my little kid.

Best regard.


Mrs Kokou


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