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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:
  • "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: Sousa Hebrew <sousahebr2007@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: soubebrew_25@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:35:15 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Miss Sousa Hebrew

>From Sousa Hebrew (Urgent)
Abidjan Republic
Cote D'Ivoire.West Africa
Private Email

Dear,
I am Sousa Hebrew, the only Daughter of late Mr and Mrs Hebrew. My father was a very wealthy cocoa Farmer and cocoa merchant before he was killed to death by his pollitical associates on one of their outing to make pollitical dialoug. When my mother died on the 21st of October 1990, my father took
me special because i am motherless.

Before the death of my father on 2nd Feb 2005 in a private hospital He secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of $7.5m (Seven Million, five hundred thousand dollars) left in a suspense account in a local Bank in Abidjan, the capital of cote d ivorie that he used my name as
his only child for the next of kin in deposit of the fund.

He also explained to me that I should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose, (such as real estate management)i am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.

1) To provide a Bank account where this money would be transferred to.
2) To serve as the guardian of this since I am a smail girl Moreover, i am willing to offer you 20% of the sum as compensation for effort input after the successful transfer of this fund to your designate account overseas.

I am waiting to hear from you, thanks and God bless.
Best regards.
Miss Sousa Hebrew




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