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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:
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • bintawahid2@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: binta wahid <bintawahid2@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:09:29 +0100
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE


Dearest,

I decided to contact you, There is something very importance to me. My name is Miss Binta Wahid the daughter of late Chief. Yakubu Wahid 11. I am a native of yendi in the Dagbon district in the northern part of Sierra Leone in West Africa. I am 24 years old presently residing in Dakar -Senegal in West Africa.

On the March 27 2003 my father was brutally murdered by a rival clan in the Dagbon region where my father was the King for so many years. This is a culmination of three days of violence which left my father and his cabinet and the entire family death in the hands of those infidels, who not only killed my father in cold blood but tortured and severed parts of his body. They also killed 28 members of the family.

Nevertheless, amidst these violence my father arranged for my escape to neighbouring country Senegal with some certain documents stating that my late father deposited a huge sum of money in one of the prime Banks here in Dakar the sate capital of Senegal amounting to USD$7.7 Million Dollars.

Hence I solicit your assistance in the transfer this fund into your personal account and for you to arrange for me to come over to your country to continue my education and also to have a new lease of life where I will be safe from this unscrupulous elements. Please I implore you in the name of God to assist me in this regards as my life is no longer safe here.
Please indicate your position through my private email(bintawahid2@yahoo.com) so that I will furnish you with the details.

Immediately you indicate your interest in assisting me, I will forward all necessary documents for your review and I will also send to you the contact of the Bank here in Dakar. I have decided to compensate you with fifteen percent of the entire funds to compensate you for your assistance.

Thank you for you’re anticipated cooperation.

Yours Sincerely,

Binta Wahid.

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