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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)
• 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_sw.28@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <miss_sw01@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:15:02 +0000
Subject: From: Miss Sandra



From: Miss Sandra
I sent this mail to you yesterday but you did not respond and I am sending it again to you because I really have faith that if you bring out your mind sincerely, You will be able to assist me. Thus;
I am writing you this letter with due respect and
heart full of tears and 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 Seria
Lone 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 that 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, Please 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 aid and help. I have arrived to
this decission after passing through what I passed
through in the Cote D'Ivoire United Nations safe
keeping Camp. I hope you will not betray the trust I
have on you because this money is my only hope in
this life, and moreover you will also help me to come
over to your country where I will settle down and
continue my ducation while you invest the money as I
have directed in all maner of truthfulness.Yours faithfully
Miss. Sandra Williams.
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