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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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: "PLEASE HEAR MY CRY" <braytejennifer7@yahoo.de> (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:56:42 +0000
Subject: PLEASE HEAR MY CRY

Hello Beloveth One,
I am Lady Brayte Jennifer, I got to know of your courtesy of International Business Bureau in Freetown (Sierra Leone) sequent to my zeal towards
foreign investment and also security for my life and my possession,I therefore write to give you a break down of this proposal.
I am a citizen of Sierra-Leone and the daughter of late Mr. Fae Brayte who before his death was the manager of Sierra-Leone Coffee and Cocoa. I hope you are aware of the war going on in my country for the past five years now. It was in one of the attack by the rebels that led to the killing of my dear parents and one of my brothers leaving I and my brother Brayte Junior as the only survival because we went to a funeral when we hear of the killing of my parents and one of my brothers we felt unsafe in the country and we managed to enter Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire through a fisher man who operate a fishing vessel through and fro in a coastal river between Cote d'Ivoire and Sierra-Leone.
Please with us is ($12,000,000.00) contained in one metallic box and presently deposited in a security company as family valuables.
My aim of contacting you is to seek your able assistance as a front in withdrawing this fund out of the security company and transfer it abroad in your account then as a business developer, you also help us to wisely invest the money in areas you deem lucrative and finally obtain a residential permit for us to stay comfortably there.
Right now the situation in my country has returned normal and I do not want to go back,Please for God sake be merciful to us and agree to help us transfer this money into your account abroad,We agree to give you 25% to see this done for us.
We will send to you the proof of this transaction as soon as we favourably hear from you and please we implore you to treat this transaction all secrecy and confidentiality for security reasons.You can contact me through the email address for more clarification.
May God bless you in abundance as you show mercy to those that
need mercy.
Thanks.
Yours faithfully & My younger brother
Brayte Jennifer Brayte Junior

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