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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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)
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Fraud email example:

From: "Malik Momoh" <mlmomoh12@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mlkmomoh@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:49:36 +0000
Subject: Investment Manager...

Investment Manager...



Kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you.
Although we never met before,I have every reason to believe
that you are a highly respected personality,considering the fact
that I sourced your profile from a human resource profile database ,
due to its esteeming nature and the recommendations given as a
reputable person .

My name is Malik Momoh; I live in Ivory Coast in West
Africa. I have just inherited the sum of
USD$16,800,000.00 (Sixteen Million, Eight Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) from my late parents.
But l am faced with a problem, it is in respect of this
problem that l am contacting you.

On the banks documents for the next of kin, my late
father appended a clause stating that: I the next of kin,
must attain the age of 30 years, before taking full control
of the bank account; But, in the event of war or natural
disasters in Ivory Coast, the bank should honor a transfer
request from me which must be for the safety of the funds;
And in this case, I must have an investment manager, my
investment manager must not be an African or in Africa,
and the money must not be transferred to any African
country.

I am 19 years old now, but Ivory Coast is not a safe country
at this time because of the war. So I want the bank to
transfer my money out of Ivory Coast to a safe country, but
the bank is insisting that l fulfill the conditions put down by
my late father. I know the bank is only being businesslike,
because there is no bank in the world that would encourage
a customer to close his or her bank account. This is actually
the reason why l am writing you.

Please I would like you to become my investment manager,
because having an investment manager is the condition the
bank insist l have to meet before they would agree to
cooperate with me in my transfer request. if you become
my investment manager, then the bank would execute my
transfer request.

Please I am expecting your response. I am willing to give
you 5% of the total money for your assistance.

My regards,

Malik Momoh

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