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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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: Marina Kamara <marinakamara01@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <marina_kamara@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:09:21 +0200
Subject: Greetings



Greetings
From: Miss Marina KamaraAbidjan Cote D'Ivoire Dear, It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration since I can not see you face to face at first.I am Miss Marina Kamara the only doughter of late MrHassan Kamara I am 24years of age. My late father was limited liability in Cocoa and Gold merchant before his untimely death. After his business trip to negociate on a cocoa and gold business he wanted to invest.

A Week after he came back from , he got an accidente with my mother of which my mother died instantly but my father died after five days in a private hospital on that faithful afternoon. I didn't know that my father was going to leave me after I had lost my mother. But before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die. He my father, MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE he disclosed to me that he deposited sum of $8.5,000,000,00 US Dollars (EIGHT MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in one of the prime banks in Abidjan the Capital City of Cote D'Ivoire..That the money was meant for his cocoa and Gold company he wanted to establish in Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire though, He single handed me the deposit Receipt and instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business partner who will help me for my life time investment abroad.

I have succeded in locating the Bank where the fund is Deposited Now I am soliciting for your honourable assistance to help me Transfer this money out from Abidjan to your account in your conutry abroad so that you can help me and invest the fund it in anymeaningful lucrative business of your choice in your country because this fund is my only hope in life. I am waiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities of this transaction. Please kindly contact me immediately for more discussion. Please don't hesitate to send me a message as soon as you receove this mail.

Thanks for your kind attention. Yours sincerelyMiss Marina Kamara.
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