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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:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: fatimata aziz <faziz0010@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <f_aziz01@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:41:18 +0200
Subject: Dear Beloved One,



Dear Beloved in Isalam,I receive Allah before the death of my husband,having known the truth,I am Mrs.Fatimata Aziz the wife of Mr Hamza Aziz,My Husband work with texaco for several years.He died after a brief illness.Before his death we were both Moslem.Since his death I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home.When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of US$10.5M.(Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S.Dollars) with a Bank in Ivory Coast Now Cote D'Ivoire Abidjan Capital Economic City.
Presently,this money is still with the Bank and the management just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to sign for the release of this money or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf if I can not come over.Presently,I'm in a hospital in Cote D'Ivoire where I have been undergoing treatment for esophageal cancer.I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live.It is my last wish to see this money distributed for the progress of the Islamic organizations anywhere in the World or to something greately beficiary to the Almighty Allah.I cannot live with the agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to my relatives and friends because they have plundered so much of my wealth since muyikilo : of Allah to help me Stand and collect the Funds from the Bank.I want a person that is Allah fearing that will use this funds to propagate the work of Allah In any part of the world.
May Allah be praised.
MRS .FATIMATA AZIZ
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