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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)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Scolla Sahili." <scoll_s001@yahoo.ca>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:46:34 -0500 (EST)
Subject: FROM SCOLLA SAHILI


Dear Beloved,

Please permit me to introduce myself formally as Scolla Sahili, hail from western region of darfur in sudan but presently taking refugee in ivory coast. I do not know all about you as i am obliged to seek into the confines of your heart and bring to your knowledge on how helpful your assistance matters to my future.

My late father Dr. Mandey Sahili, former chairman board of director of national gold and cotton corporation of sudan died as a result of power struggle between President Umar al-Bashir and ousted parliament speaker Hasan al-Turabi, the main ideologue of Sudan's Islamist government while my mother died as a result of hypertention after our arrival to Ivory Coast.

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your country. Though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life. There is this family treasure box that contain's a very huge amount of eight million U.S dollars($8,000,000.00) which my late mother deposited in a security company here in Ivory Coast upon our arrival.

Now I have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa due to security and political reasons.I want you to help me claim and retrieve this family treasure box from the custody of the security company and transfer it to your country for investment purposes on these areas:
1) Telecommunication
2) The Transport Industry
3) Five Star Hotel
4) Real Estate Management

If you can be of an assistance to me I will be pleased to offer to you 15% Of the total fund. Note, that any delayance to reply me will give me room in sourcing for another for the same purpose.

Best Regard
Miss Scolla Sahili.


MEANWHILE GO THROUGH THESE SITES TO BE KNOWLEDGED OF THE CRISIS IN MY COUNTRY:
www.sudan.net/news/posted/9661.html
www.sudan.net/news/posted/9080.html
www.sudan.net/news/posted/9172.html
www.sudan.net/news/posted/9142.html.





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