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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million dollars" (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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Gerard Senac" <gerards48@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: gerardss48@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:58:32 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Good Day


Foreign Remittance Department
Crédit Mutual Bank, Dakar Senegal.
Dear Friend,

First, i must solicit your confidence in this letter. I am Mr. Gerard Senac, the director of treasury and bill exchange at the foreign remittance department of Credit Mutual Du Bank Senegal.I humbly wish to seek your assistance in a matter that requires utmost urgency and confidentiality. I want to start investment with the sum of ($26,000,000.00) Twenty Six Million Dollars in your country or any other country with good economic stability and political climate.

For some reasons i cannot place this fund with established financial institution so these requires me to urgently look for a reliable partner to help move this fund out of here invest/manage it for me before i finally resign from my office.

It is my wish that this deal be handled as quietly as possible without any leakage to the press. If you agree to act as a fund manager for me, then i will release the money to you. Upon favourable response from you i shall let you know how to receive the fund. I shall be interested in real estates, hotels, stocks & bonds or any other business you might recommend.

After successful deal, your commission shall be thirty percent of the total sum which is ($8,000,000.00) Eight Million USD. for your assistance in safely moving the fund offshore of Senegal. Sixty five percent for me and five percent shall be used to inbures expenses we might incur during the transaction. you shall also be entitled to an annual fourty percent of the money after tax returns for the first two years of managing my share of the deal. Thereafter the terms shall be review.

Please do reply if you can handle it for further details. henceforth.

Thanks and best regards,
Gerard Senac.


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