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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "mohamed" <mohamed_eku@myway.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:21:26 -0400 (EDT)
Subject:




















Hello,

I am by name Mohamed Eku Johnson a 28 years ghanian living in Abidjan, Ivory coast. I was living happily with my mum and my dad who have two wives in all my past days here in ivory coast until I lost my mum 3 years ago.I am contacting you for this, a month ago I lost my dad as the only hope I have although he was a rich and wealthy man before his death . Now a week ago, my late fathers lawyer come faward to read up my fathers wheel in his cabinet and this wheel give me a right to a caise cotaining the total sum of 5. 8 million euro in a security copany in my home country ghana. Now after the declearation of the lawyer, my step mother who is my mother second as second wife to my mother and the children rose against me due to my beneficiarry. Now they are hunting my life for this and this make me to be living in fear and hiding, immidietly I contacted the lawyer about the cliaming of this caise so that I will travel out of this country and he made it known to me that to claim
this, I will need the help of a forigne partiner because the caise of money is deposited acopany with a security statement saying "in case of his absent his forigne partiner will be the only to cliame this from the security company and I as the mention son will be the one to introduce this very partiner" NOTE: the name and the country of this very forigne partiner was not told.So this is why I am contacting you to act as this very partiner to help me claim this caise from the security company and for me to have a source of living and also leave the country for security reasons. I will like you to help me negociate for me a better colege to continue my studies there in ur country. So these are what I want from you I promise you that you will have a reasonable compesation from thie total amount.

Immidietly you reply this mail, I will farward to you the documents guildingf this box for eassyt and fast ralease.

thank you for you accepotance,

Mohamed Eku Johnson

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