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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million 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)
  • "abidjan" (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 Prisca Camara <mara-pris28@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <p_kamara1@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:43:41 +0000
Subject: Hellow Beloved one,



Hellow Beloved one,

I pray that this my letter will get to you in good condition. I got your email contact where i currently reside for refuge on my going through a magazine and decided to contact you with faith for this help. It is my pleasure to contact you, although I have not met with you before that is why i'm pleading for this help, but i want you to consider it as the will of God for us to know eachother.

I am Ms. Prisca Camara 19 years old, the only daughter of Mr david Camara from Zimbabwe,He's known as a cocoa Farmer/merchant in our country and within African countries. Durning the recent land disputes by the agents of our president Mr Robert Gabriel Mugabe(KCB), He was killed together with some other farmers.

Two weeks after his dealth my mother told me about the deposite of $19.5 million dollars,he made in a bank in Abidjan,Cote d'ivoire with a foreign partner which she didn't know and the document of deposite was made with my name.

So i waited for so long before I decided to recover the money to start up my life in your country or anywhere save enough outside Africa for security of my life. I want you to help me claim and retrive the money from the bank with the documents I have here with me and transfer it into your personal account in your country for my future life purposes and on profitable investment.

Please if you can be of assistance to me, I will be pleased for you, tell me what will be your offer out of the total money so I can use the rest to start up my life. Please, I want you to know that it will require money according to the bank on my last discussion with the manager, this is the reason I cry unto you for Godly help to get this money out of the bank.

I await your soonest response through here if you can consider my plight and help me out.

Regards,Ms. Prisca Camara.
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