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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:
  • "monrovia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Miss Sandra Williams <m_sw0065@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <miss_sw01@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 10:25:24 +0000
Subject: From: Miss Sandra



From: Miss Sandra
I am writing you this letter with due respect and heart full of tears I need
your help. I'm Miss.Sandra Williams the only Daughter of late Mr and Mrs Martin
Williams.My father was a very Rich and wealthy Gold Trader in Monrovia the
Capital of Liberia in West Africa.His business associates poisoned him while my mother died when I was a little
girl of 19 years.
He deposited ($11 MILLION U.S DOLLARS) in a bank here in Cote D'ivoire.He
made this money from the sales of Gold,He also told me that it was because of
this money he was poisoned while on a business trip with business associates
and he instructed me to look for a foreign partner who will help me transfer
this money out of republic of Cote Divoire and invest it for me, Help me to
transfer this money to your country before this people who killed my father
will kill me,they are after my life and they want to kill me and collect this
money from me, that is why I'm now hiding my self here in republic of Cote
Divoire.
Please I need your urgent help.I will love part of this money to be invested
in kingdom work like CHARITY FOUNDATION where the needy and the helpless will
be recieving aids and help. I have rrived to this decission after passing
through what I just passed through in the Cote D'Ivoire United Nations safe
keeping troup Camp. I hope you will not betray the trust I have on you ecause
this money is my only hope in this life, and moreover you will also help me
to come over to your country were I will settle down and continue my ducation
while you invest the money as I have directed in all maner of truthfulness.Yours faithfullySandra Williams.
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