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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • revfranklyncisse10@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Rev Franklyn cisse" <revfanklyn@wall.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: revfranklyn@walla.com
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:10:02 +0100
Subject: May God Bless You


Hello Dearest One in the Lord.

May our Lord Jesus Christ bless you and every members
of your family, as you read this mail.

Before anything let me tell you about myself. I am Rev. Father Franklyn Cisse, am 59 years old without a child and wife. Of which i have be serving the Lord with all my heart for the past 19 years and i took Christ to be my wife and all i am today in Life, may his holy name be bless in Jesus name i pray Amen. Well, i will want you to keep my request to yourself.Because my condition for now is very bad, my doctor called me personally that i will not last for the next 2 weeks, that i am having heart problem. He said the only thing that will serve my life is God,and all the members here in our church has been praying for me not to die, but i don't know what to do, as i believe that God is calling me.
In addition, i know i will die, and it will be a very bad thing if i die with the money i have made in life without helping those that is in need, so that is why
i am writing you this mail, in order to donate the sum of $1,500,000. One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Cash, to you and every members in your church. All i was having with me in my account was $3,000,000. Three Million United States Dollars, and i have donated 50% of it to my Church members, why the balance will be for you and every members in your church, as i don't have anybody as a wife or a child, so i believe Christ in my Wife and all i am today, so that is why i am donating this money to you.
Finally, i will want you to try all your best to reply me as soon as possible with your full name telephone and fax number together with your full Bank
information where the money will be transferred into, so it will enable me to forward it directly to my Bank for them to contact you directly for onward transfer of the money to your nominated Bank account.

Thanks may our Lord Jesus Christ bless you as i look forward to read from you, and please don't forget to be including me in your prayers.
Yours in Christ.
email:revfranklyncisse10@yahoo.com

Rev Father Franklyn Cisse.

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