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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:
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "urgent assistance" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "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: florence mel <florence_mel2000@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 19:48:02 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: I am seeking your urgent attention


From: Florence Mel,
Country: Ivory Coast,
Location: West Africa.

Dear One,

I got your contact informations through site and decided to contact you, hoping that by Almighty God grace, you will successfully assist me out from my situations after seven days of prayer and fasting over seeking for an overseas guardance. I am Miss Florence Mel ( 22 years old ). The only daughter of late Mrs Vivan Mel, who was a famous and wealthy cocoa and gold merchant base in Abidjan, the econimic capital of Ivory Coast located in West Africa.

My Mother was poisoned to death by her business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. My Father died when i was a baby and since then, my mother took me so special. Before she died, she secrectly called me on her bed side and told me that she has the sum of ($5,000,000.00 USD ).Five million, united state dollars, deposited in fixed / suspense account in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan, that she used my name as her only daughter for the next of kin.

I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.I am seeking your urgent attention to help me transfer the sum into your account for an investment purposes, Such as real estates management business. And i want you to help me invest this money in your country and help me to locate a nice school to continue my education in your country.I am willing to offer you 20% of the total sum as compensation for your urgent assistance to me, immediately after the transfer of the fund into your account in your Country.

Yours sincerely,
Florence Mel.


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