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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:
  • "dear beloved," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "edmond mezuh" <edmond18@hosanna.net>
Reply-To: edmondemezuh01@live.fr
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:56:42 +0000
Subject: Listen To Me Please


Listen To Me Please
I am Edmond
In Cote D'Ivoire

Dear Beloved,

I am writting you this letter with due respect and heart full of tears,
I know it is normal and natural for you to wonder why I contacted you for
assistance in this transaction when we have not met each other before, I am
pleading that you be patient with me,

My father was poisoned by his business associates neon my uncles is ungodly
to me,please everything i told you is truth and legal am begging you to
accept me with an open heart and mind it is the situation I found myself
that made me to contact you.

Before the death of my father on March 2007 in a hospital here in cote
d'ivoire,he told me that he has the sum of (US$ 11.6) Millions united
state dollars in the bank, I am contacting you to assist me transfer
the money in to your account,my Late Father made the money in sale of Gold
Business in Liberia,

i will like you to invest the money in your Country under your
Management while I continue my education because my education stopped
abruptly due to the death of my Father. My mother died when am little ,

also tell me how much you will take from the total money as your percentage
when the bank successfully transferred the money into your bank
Thanks and God Bless you abundantly, I Hope to hear from you.

Edmond Emezuh

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