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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear beloved," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "please indicate your interest" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: sylvie ngoueme <syl_ng111@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <syl_ng100@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:11:49 +0100
Subject: from sylvie



from sylvie Dear beloved,
I am delighted to write to you.I'm sorry if this mail will come to you as a surprise, We just felt like empting ourself to you, to confide in you, as we are faced with total frustration and hardship. our Ernest prayer is that you will find this mail in good health and blessings.
i am Miss Sylvie Ann Ngoueme from Sierre Leone.we are an orphan being that, we lost our parents a couple of months ago. our father was a serving director of the Cocoa exporting board until his death,he was assassinated with my mother on their way coming back from work by the rebels following the political uprising in Cote 'D Ivoire.
Before our father's death he made us to understand that he deposited the sum of ($9.5m) which he told the bank,that it was for the importation of cocoa processing machines. Now that our parents are dead,please we want you to do us a favour to stand for us as our Daddy's foreign bussiness patner who is a dealer of cocoa processing machine, on whom the money in the bank belongs to. and also to stand as the beneficiary. so that the bank will transfer it to your bank account with all the documents that was issued to our daddy on the day that he made the deposit.
I and my younger brother Patrick have plans to do an investment in your country, like real estate and industrial production and also to start our education there in your country.This is our reason for writing to you. Please if you are willing to assist us for what l and younger brother Patrick are going through here are so much for us please we want you to stand for us so that the bank will follow your instructions . please l and my only brother has agreed with good faith that you will stand for us please indicate your interest in replying soonest. so that we will have every cost to live like other of our friends that we are seeing around us with there parents.please we want you to be our guidiance so that we will still have a cost to live on this earth. please write back to us in other for us to know your interest to help us
Thanks and God bless,
Best regards,
Miss Sylvie Ann Ngoueme

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