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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:
  • "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: "daniel toure" <djatou012@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: djatou87@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:24:15 +0000
Subject: FROM DANIEL & JANET

Dearest One

Warm greetings from Daniel and janet Toure, children of late Engineer
Jonathan Toure. Our Mother died earlier in 1998 so our father took us so
special being his only children but since the death of our father, his
brothers and sister has chased us out of our family house and denied us
access to our father's estates and other properties.

Our late father was a chief protocol officer to Late Robert guei,former
military President of cote d' ivoire ( IVORY COAST, WEST AFRICA) before his
mysterious death during the crisis in Republic
of Cote D'ivoire in 2002. Before the death of our father in a private
hospital here in Abidjan, the capital city of cote d ivoire he called me and
told me that he has the sum of twenty eight Million, Five Hundred Thousand
US dollars (US$28,500,000) left in a fixed/suspense account in one of the
prime banks here in Abidjan with my name as next of kin. he asked me to find
a God fearing Foreign business partner to help us transfer this money and
use it in investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel
management.

we are am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:

1) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only 19 and janet is 15
years old.

2)
To make arrangement for us to come over to your country to continue
our education and to secure a resident permit for us in your country.

I am prepared to negotiate with you regarding your percentage commission for
assisting us.

Thanks and looking forward to your kind assistance.

Yours faithfully,

Daniel & Janet Toure.

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