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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million 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)
  • ",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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: mamadu alice <alicemamadu1943@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:15:52 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Request for investment advice


Hi,
My name is Miss Alice Mamadu. I am writing you from Cote D'ivoire (Ivory Coast). I am contacting you because I will like you to help me. I am a young girl aged 21 years. I lost my father recently and I have inherited some money which my dad kept in a finance and security company here in Abidjan. The amount is $4,000,000 (four million dollars only). There are documents backing this deposit.

What I want you to do for me is agree to accept this fund and assist me to manage it when I come over to your country. You are to help me secure visa and arrange where I will stay when I come over. Because I have problem with relation of my late father I am keeping this issue secret and would like you to do the same. As soon as you write back to inform me that you can help I will like us to apply for the fund and get it transfered to the account you will have to give me. I know I am taking risk because I have not met you before but I have to do so base on trust. Please dont betray me and sit on this fund.

Please write back with your telephone numbers so that I can call you to accertain before apply for the fund.

Yours trully,
Miss Alice Mamadu


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