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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "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: Ceiline Milan <ceilinemilan4444@yahoo.cn>
Reply-To: ceilinemilan_505@yahoo.fr
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 01:11:58 +0800 (CST)
Subject: A Stranger at your door!


Dearest One,

I thank God for this opportunity to get in touch with you, I pray that my decision to ask you for help would not be thrown to the wind. Introducing myself, I am Ms. Celine Milan, the only daughter of Late Chief and Mrs.Sule Milan, a businessman who based in Liberia and Abidjan Cote d'ivoire who sold Gold and exported Cocoa .My father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips,

before the death of my father on the 29th April 2004 in a private hospital here in Abidjan He secretly called me on his bed and told me that he made a deposit of USD$8.5M (eight million five hundred thousand U.S) in one of the Prime Bank here in Abidjan Cote D' Ivoire, that he used my name as his beloved duaghter for the Next of Kin in depositing the fund.

Now I have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security and political reasons.I want you to help me contact the bank inorder that they will pay the Money into your personal account in your country for investment purposes, after which you will make arrangment for me to travel out from here to come and Join with you in your country to start a NewLife with you.

Moreover,I am willing to offer you 25% of the total sum as compersation for your effort and input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated account overseas, I will be waiting to hear from you as soon as this email gets to you in good health.

I will give you more details of the Transfer as soon as I hear from you.

Thanks and God bless you.

Yours Faithfully,

Celine Milan


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