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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: celine samuel <celinesamuel0@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: ms_celine.samuel19@live.fr
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:32:00 +0100 (CET)
Subject: From Ms. Celine Samuel


Confidential Msg!)
Please Contact me immediately
From Mrs. Celine Samuel

(Please I want to commit this $4.5 Million into your hand)



Please reply to my private e-mail address: ms_celine.samuel19@live.fr

I am Celine Samuel (19 years old) the only Daurgther of late Mr and Mrs. Mark Samuel citizen of Sierra Leone living in Cote D'ivoire.

I want to come and invest in your country with a sum of (USD $4.5 M U.S DOLLARS) which my father deposited in a bank here in Cote D'ivoire. he made this money from the sales of Gold,But he is dead now,Am looking for a foreign partner who will help me transfer this money out of republic of Cote Divoire to your country since there is still war in sierra leone and invest it for me in real estate or any other profitable venture, my purpose of contacting you is for you to help me transfer this money to your country for this purpose ,i promise you total honesty and i will furnish you with all veritable proof.

I'm now staying here in republic of Cote Divoire please i need your urgent help,Tell me how much percentage you will take in the total money of the $4.5 M Dollars to help me in transfering this money to your country.All transaction shall be legally signed before we do anything so that you know what you are getting into and what percentage to expect for your asistance,

l hope you will not betray the trust i have on you because this money is only hope in this life and moreover you will also help me to come over to your country where i will settle down for my life and continue my education.

Please reply to my private e-mail address: ms_celine.samuel19@live.fr

I am waiting to hear from you
From Ms Celine Samuel





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