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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: rose sankor <rose_sankor50@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <rose_sankor@cooltoad.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:39:34 +0200
Subject: FROM:Miss Rose SANKOR



FROM:Miss Rose SANKOR(ON BEHALF OF HILLS FAMILY) Dearest One, I know this letter will come as a surprise to you, but I would like you to give it top consideration so as to help me and my family out from our present economic predicament, which the entire family is facing this time around. I am Rose Sankor only Daughter of Mr.Mukete Sankor a British citizen who based in Zimbabwe and also a farmer in Zimbabwe. My father, Mr Mukete Sankor who is now, under the Zimbabwe police custody is awaiting trial for not quiting his farm as directed and instructed by the Zimbabwe present president Mr.Robert Mogabe that the white farmers in the country should vacate their farm land and go back to their country.But my father due to what he has invested in Zimbabwe and also on his farm he refused quitting, it is because of this that the president instructed the police to lock him and all his properties are now seized by the Zimbabwean Government.

All effort made by my father's friend Mr David Connelly, the Zimbabwean Chairman Justice for Agriculture and my mother who is also a Zimbabwean citizen to release my father was to no avail. My mother Mrs. Rebecca Sankor knowing fully well the case of my father is a serious case revealed to me that my father Mr. Mukete Sankor deposited eleven million, seven hundred thousand United States dollars (11.7m USD) with a BANK here in COTE D' IVOIRE Dear, I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways :1. To help me transfer this fund to your account and a proper investment2. To make arrangement for me to come over to yourcountry to further my education . Your urgent reply is needed. Thanks for your coperation.Miss Rose SANKOR (on behalf of Rose Sankor's family)
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