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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:
  • "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: maniwilly <maniwilly115@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: maniwilly1986@yhaoo.com
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:55:39 +0900 (JST)
Subject: FROM : MANI WILLY


I have a serious problem which is an injury that lingers in my soul for almost seven months now and i want somebody who is reliable and honest who will help me to overcome the crisis. my mother is not longer alive here in abidjan as i am writing you and recently My Beloved Dad join his ancestors
though the hand of his wicked brother who call him self my uncle but has turn to be a lion over night to me.

How i wish i will see you now in my country and we talk to each other at present. my father before his death was a chairman of cocoa dealers here in bouake ivory coast,that was when am still a student at the federal college of in Abidjan. but i stop school after the death of my father because my
uncle decided to poison me just for nothing sake, As am writing you now, all my hope and dream of future was shartered and spread to the sky as i don't know what to do,

My father left a big amount of money with the bank USD 5.5MILLION DOLLARS, and i don't know about this, it was on the 10th of october last year that our farmily lawyer kindly hand over to me the documents covering the deposit and the WILL my father wrote and the instruction on how i will utilise
the money, Meanwhile i don't know what actually what to do with this money here because my life is in danger and with shartered brain and life, that is why i contacted you so that you so that you will help me and give me an assistance to transfer this fund to your account and also you will help
me come over to your country for security of my life and also to continue my education while you will search for a good investment to invest this fund.,

Please it is a long story that if i start to narrate them now, you will be shedding tears over there, but i will give you more details in your next mail but kindly bear in mind that i need you to help me out of this my bad condition and help transfer this money to his account and assist me come
over there for security of my life and the fund and start a new life you.

Please i need your help, cplease i will love to hear from you urgent.
Thanks once again and please extend my greeting to your family.

Sweet love from
Miss maniwilly








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