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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)
  • "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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "p_mikekamara Gazeta.pl" <p_mikekamara@gazeta.pl>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 21:52:22 +0000
Subject: FROM PRINCE MIKE & JOY KAMARA


FROM PRINCE MIKE & JOY KAMARA
Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire,In West Africa.

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship
with you.

I am PRINCE MIKE KAMARA the only son of late CHIFE and Mrs Alfred.G. KAMARA,
I am here with my only sister Joy,Our father was a very wealthy cocoa
merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was
poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to
discuss on a business deal.

When our mother died,our father took me and my junior sister special because
we are motherless.Before the death of our father on in a private hospital
here in Abidjan,He secretly called us on his bedside and told us that he has
a sum of Eleveen Million United States Dollars (USD$11M)Only deposited in a
bank here on his name.

He also explained to us that it was because of this wealth and some huge
amount of money his business associates supposed to balance him from the
deal they had that he was poisoned by his business associates, that we
should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of our choice who
can assist us in claiming this fund from the bank for us for investment
purposes and use it for investment purpose, (such as real estate
management).

But because of the present political problems in this country Cote d'ivoire
we want to transfer the money out of the country as we don't know what might
happen next.
We are honourably seeking your assistance in the following way.

( 1) To act as the foreign partner of our late father by claiming this fund
from the bank for further transfer and investment to your designated bank
account abroad.
Moreover , we are willing to offer you 15% of the sum as compensation for
effort input after the successful transfer of this fund to your designated
account in your country overseas.

Anticipating to hear from you soon.
Thanks and God Bless.

PRINCE MIKE KAMARA

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