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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: sandra peters <sanpeters91@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <sandrapeters0@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:20:32 +0000
Subject: Hello Dear




Hello Dear,

I knew it will be wrong to contact you through this means,though I do not know you in person, is just that I am desparate and my present conditions are too bad, that was the more reason, I used this medium to fasten up my request to you.
I am Sandra Peters the daughter of late Mr Thomas Peters , the assacinated sinator in zimbabwe but pressentlly, I am in Abidjan, capital city of Cote D'Ivoire in west Africa, for the past two months now.But the pains,surffering and victimization of our fundamental human rights by our late father's brothers has made us to run to you for help.
Please for the sake of God and humanity,we will want you to assist us in all sincerity to claim the fund which my late father deposited in the bank before his death,he used my name as next of kin but my Uncles wants to kill I and my brother inorder to inherit this money as they did to other properties.Though I have gone to the bank which is been located here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire in West Africa inorder to request for claims,the bank reviewed my late father's agreement with them,that I must obtain the age of 25yrs before I would be able to make a claim of the money or alternatively I should contact a Guardian who will help me to make this claims on my behalf according to my late father's instructions.
Please help us out of this troubles and dangers of been killed by responding to my mail urgently so that I can give you all the documents and informations concering me and the money so that you will be able to contact the bank on my behalf and also invite us to your country inorder for our gridy uncles not to kill us.
Thanks for your understanding and may God bless you.
Waiting to hear your urgent response, have a fulfiled day.

Sandra.
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