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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: rita david <riq00@msn.com>
Reply-To: <ms_rita_swarts@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:35:16 +0000
Subject: From Mrs Rita David Swarts



From Mrs Rita David Swarts
Please reply me back important,

Dearest one

I know that this mail may reach you by surprise.As we dont know ourself previously.I am the above name person from India.I am married to Mr DAVID SWARTS who was the Ambassador of Jamaica for nineten years in cote divoire.We were married for fiften years without a child.He died indecember 27th 2004

when my late husband was alive, he deposited the sum of( USD $12.7 Million )twelve Million seven hundred thousand U.S.Dollars into a box for security reason and the money still with the security company here in abidjan cote d'ivoire.

i want you to know that nobody know the content of that box.I am telling you the content reason that i want you to assist me use the fund for the work of GOD. Even do you are not a christain .what i want is for you to use it and help the helpless people around you .to help the orphanages, widows, and motherles childrens.

so please i am waiting for your urgent reply so that i can give you more information about this money,

Remain Blessed always.
Mrs Rita David Swarts

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