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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:
  • "million american 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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: CABINET FINANCE <cabinetfinance2010expertise9@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <cabinetexpertisejuridique@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:08:27 +0000
Subject: FINANCEMENT (FINANCING)



A votre attention,

C’est avec un réel plaisir que nous prenons contact avec vous afin de vous faire part d'une opportunité d'affaires et pour laquelle nous recherchons un ou des partenaires sérieux et confiants.
En effet, nous sommes un cabinet financier qui représente et travaille pour le compte d'un groupe d'investisseurs composés de riches hommes d'affaires et d'entrepreneurs à la recherche de partenaires capables de les aider et les assister à placer et investir d'importantes sommes d'argent hors du Bénin.
A ce jour, nous vous adressons ce message afin de solliciter votre assistance et collaboration pour l'investissement de Quarante Huit Millions de Dollars Américains (48.000.000,00 US$); vous serez donc leur conseiller et leur représentant dans votre pays pour l'investissement de ces fonds dans des activités commerciales génératrices de revenus et les orienter vers les opportunités d'affaires fructueuses conformément aux dispositions juridiques et légales en vigueur dans votre pays.
Si notre proposition vous intéresse, nous vous prions de nous contacter expressément tout en restant à votre disposition pour des détails complémentaires.

Cordialement,

Le responsable.

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With your attention

It is with a real pleasure that we take to contact with you in order to you in order to make you share of an opportunity of businesses and for which we seek serious and trustful partners.
Indeed, we are a financial and law firm which represents and works for a group of investors made up of rich person businessmen and contractors in the search of partners able to help them and assist them to place and invest important money sums out of Benin.
Today, we address this message to you in order to request your assistance and collaboration for the investment of Forty Eight Million American Dollars (48.000.000,00 US$); you will be thus their financial adviser and their representative in your country for the investment of these funds in generating commercial activities of incomes and to direct them towards the profitable business appropriatenesses in accordance with the legal provisions in your country.
If our proposal interests you, contact us expressly while remaining at your disposal for complementary details.

Cordially,

The Chairman.

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