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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:
  • "transfer into your account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Gladis Christian <gladfor2007@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:47:11 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Hello my dearest,


Hello my dearest,
Thanks you for your kindness and help to bring me out from this situation i pray that God will give you the strenght and power for all you have been doing to help me. my dear after the death of my late father my uncle started matreeting me, he seize all the properties that my father has in my country and wanted me to join prostitution,he wanted me to give him the document that my late father use in depossiting the money in senegal here,before i got a help from one Rev father and come to dakar senegal where i stay as a refugee and live with room mate. my dear i am really surfring here,i find it difficult to eat, if i should tell you that i have been puting one cloth for over three days now you will never believe me,i want to become every thing for you and i want you to put me into your heat to make me happy forever, i really want you to be my
and treet me as your wife and wipe away my tears and my situation i am passing through. my dear why i wanted you to contact the bank so that they can tranfer the money to your account,is that,last time i contact them i told the bank about the claim of my money but they told me that they cannot deal with me do to my refugee status that i should contact any of my relation or my late father business partner who will stand and claim the money, my dear i don't have any one niether do i have any of my relation who will help me that is why i want you to go as my blood and my flesh and contact the bank so that they can give you the information and the proceedure on how they can transfer the money into your account so after the money entered into your account you come over to pick me or you send me some money so that i can prepare my travel document and come over to live a beter life with you so that you can make me happy forever. my dear as i explain my situation so it make me
cry,i will be waiting to hear from you so that i can send you the contact of the bank to contact them and know the next step we can take to get the money transfer into your account. here is my pic and my late father pic hope you love it. hope to hear from you.
Gladis,

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