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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:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: isoukrou phillipe <phillipe.isoukrou14@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <phillipe.isoukrou@hotmail.fr>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:29:24 -0500
Subject: My regards: for important and urgent matter.



From: Phillipe Isoukrou and Sister.Abidjan refugge camp,Cote d'Ivoire.

Dear respectful,Good-day and compliments of the day.My name is, Phillipe Isoukrou , the senior son of late Chief and Mrs. Thomas Isoukrou of bouake district of Cote d'Ivoire, very wealthy cocoa-cafe farmers and exporters based in Abidjan, the economy capital of Cote d'Ivoire.

We are sorry to inform you about the recent attack on our parents by some unknown assassins, of which our mother died instantly, and our father was taken to a specialist hospital where he later died 6 days after. May their souls rest in peace. A-men.

Anyway, our purpose of contacting you is purely based on our eargerness to have our financial inheritance from our late parents (US$12.5M) with a bank here transfered onwardly to your country for business establishment there. As little children we are, to abide by the instruction our father left for us before he died, we are requesting your kind assistance to be our foreign business partner and to serve as the gurdian of this very fund, so as to provide on our behalf your foreign bank account to enable the bank here transfer the money for us therein for our business establishment over there. The funds is part of the income our late father generated from the sales of his cocoa/cafe products.

Having agreed with my sister, a reward of 12.5% out of the total sum shall be your compensation after the transfer and on our arrival to your country. So, on your acceptance to help us, it would be better you reply, including the following details as it would be much essential for futher communication:-(1). your full names:...........................(2). residence address:.........................(3). Telephone/fax number:......................(4). Age: ........./occupation:...............

Faithfully,Phillipe Isoukrou & sister.
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