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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:
  • "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: nonowilliams9 <nonowilliams9@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: nonowilliams778@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 00:04:19 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From: Nora and Samuel Williams

Abidjan - Cte d Ivoire.
Dearest One

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture.Our Names are Miss Nora 17 and Samuel 14yrs.Children to Mr and Mrs Alfred Williams who were both killed in a motor accident some years ago.We are contacting you to help us to establish in your country.Though I have not met with you before
but I believe,one have to risk confiding in someone to succeed in life.

There is these amount of Seven million U.S dollars($7,000,000.00) which my late father told us he had deposited in my name Nora in a commercial bank here in Abidjan-Cote d Ivoire for safe keeping before he died as a result of that accident some days after.

Now I and my younger brother decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough for security and political reasons because this country is currently going through war which is not safe for us and also the money not safe in the bank where it is deposited.

We want you to help us in contacting the bank since we are still underaged and ask for the transfer of the fund from their bank into your account in your country for investment purposes on these areas:

(1) Real estate
(2) The transport industry
(3) Five star hotel

If you will be an assistance to us we will be pleased to offer to you 15% of the total amount also I await your soonest response.

Respectfully yours,
Nora And Samuel Williams



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