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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:
  • "please indicate your interest" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million 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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: morris popur <morris.popur49@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:02:53 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Investment Proposal.


Dear Sir,

I am Morris Popur from Sierra Leone but residing in Ivory Coast in here in West Africa . It is my desire to contact you on honesty and sincerity to assist me and my younger sister in transferring of our inheritance money of $15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million United States Dollars), which we inherited from our late father Mr. Desmond Popur. Our motivated in contacting you and hope to gradually build trust, good relationship and confidence in you as we get to know you better.

So please we want to know if you will be of assistance to us, but first of all we want to get to know you better. We would offer you 15% of the total money for your assistance, while 5% would be for every expense that might occur in the process of transferring the money to your bank account for our investment.

Please indicate your interest towards this offer to enable us tell you more on how the transaction would be done.

Thanks, and may God bless you for your nice person

Morris Popur


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