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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "million 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)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: sonia p.ansary <soniamrs_1@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <mrssonnia@voila.fr>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:35:13 +0100
Subject: investment Partnership.



Dear sir/madam, After going through your contact i was compelled to contact you with this business transaction .I am Mrs. Sonia Phillip Ansay from sierre leone , but am writen you from london. I happily married to late Mr. Phillip, we were both married for 7 years without a child, and he died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. My late husband was a Gold and Diamond marchant based in West Africa, before he died he has sum of $23M (Twenty Three Million United States Dollars), in a depository box he deposited under my name in a security firm in Benin Republic as a consignment for safe keeping. I want your help to relocate the funds to your country/resident state for investment.Presently am diognosed with cancer of the breast, i fly to london for the surgical operation and am writen you from my sick bed with my laptop, due to my health condition am unable to carry out the funds relocate myself. I seek for your help to make the change of ownership of the depository box containing the funds ($23M) to your favour, and relocate to your care in your country/resident state for joint partnership in the investment of the funds in a lucrative business, after my recovering from the surgical operation i shall join you for the investment project.I offer you 15% of the total sum for your honorarium assistance in relocating the funds successful, while we have joint partnership in the investment of 80% of the sum. If you have accepted to assist me, urgently contact me for more detail to proceed on this business without delays.thank you and remain bless. Mrs. Sonia Phillip
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