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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: linda kamara <linda_a11@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <linda_kamara14@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 16:57:50 -0200
Subject: Dear Respectful One



Dear Respectful OnePermit me to inform you of my desire to go into business relationship with you. I prayed over this before contacting you. Because there was no doubt in me after my prayer, I concluded that you are a reputable and trust worthy person I can confide in with this business. My name is Linda kamara daughter of late Mr and Mrs Dickson kamara. My mother died when we were very young. After death of my mother our father took me and my younger brother special because he did not remarry until his untimely dead. My father was a business merchant before his untimely dead as result of food poison as ascertain by doctors. This ugly incidence happened the day he came back from visit to my relations and after business discussion with his business associate. Before died of my father he intimate me about sum of $4.500.000 (FOUR MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED US DOLLARS) deposited in one of the Banks here in Abidjan, Cote d’ Ivoire that he used my name as next to claim it in case any thing happens to him. He told me that he suspect it was because of this wealth and some huge amount of money his business associates supposed to balance him from Diamond business they had that he was poisoned. That I should seek for a God fearing foreign partner who can assist me to claim this money and use it for investment purpose.If you have investment knowledge, trust worthy and willing to assist us for our mutual benefit because you are going to benefit from the transaction. Reply and send us your name, address and telephone number as first yes answer before we send you more detail. I hope to hear from you. Thanks and God Bless. Linda and Dan Kamara
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