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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:
  • "monrovia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (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: Water/Sister Dorman <w.dorman1@msn.com>
Reply-To: <water.rosedorman@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:03:04 -0600
Subject: URGENTLY PLEASE GET BACK TO ME.



From Water and Siste

I am writing you this letter with due respect and heart full of tears, we need your help. I’m Water Jnr, dormand and my little sister Rose,of late Mr and Mrs George Dorman Barah, our later father was a very Rich and wealthy Gold Trader in Monrovia the Capital of Liberia in West Africa. His business associates poisoned him while our mother died when I was a little boy of 19. He deposited (USD $6 MILLION U.S DOLLARS) in a bank here in Cote D'ivoire. He made this money from the sales of Gold, He also told me that it was because of this money he was poisoned while on a business trip with his business associates and he instructed me to look for a foreign partner who will help me transfer this money out of republic of Cote Divoire and invest it for me and my sister, Help us to transfer this money to your country before this people who killed our father will kill me and my little sister Rose, they are after our life and they want to kill us and collect this money from us, that is why we now hiding ourself here in republic of Cote Divoire. Please I need your urgent help. I hope you will not betray the trust we have on you because this money is our only hope in this life, and moreover you will also help us to come over to your country were we will settle down for our life and invest this money to further our education.

Yours faithfully Water Jnr/Sister.

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