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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 amount 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 orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Nadiya Camara" <nadiya87camara@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: nadiyacamara@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 04:01:01 +0200
Subject: Please help me sir..

Dear sir,
Good day.
I know that you will not recognise whom i am,my name is Nadiya Camara.I am 19 years old from Khartoum Sudan in Africa,i am 5.6ft tall, black in complexion,single.
Presently i am residing in the refugee camp here in Dakar as a result of the Political/religoius crisis that have been causing problems in my country.

I am very happy to send you this mail,how was your day?Mine is a little bit hot over here in Dakar.How about your family not forgeting friends and work alltogether?hopefully all are are okay.

My late father Mr Giorgis Butrus Camara. was the managing director of Miami Group Drilling and Construction Associates (Ltd) before the rebels attacked our house one early morning May 16 2005 and killed my mother and my father in a cold blood.

I am from Sudan but i am staying in a refugee camp here in Dakar Senegal and also i am a victim of the on going political religious crisis in my country last two years that claimed the lives of my parents and left me an orhpan.

I was really moved in spirit to seek for your help/assistance because before the sad inccident my daddy left some amount of money in a bank here in Dakar Senegal in my care.

Please sir,i am looking for a trustful Allah fearing person who will help me transfer this huge amount of money my father kept in this bank into his account,i have contacted the bank and they told me that the money must be transfered to a foriegn account of a trusted person,or that i must be at laest 25-30 years old before the money can be transfered to my account.

They also said that i should look for a trusted business partner/friend of my fathers who can help me keep the money in his account or use it for a reasonable investment in other to enable me face the things of life and continue my education studies,as it is an agreement reached by the bank and my father.

So as i was searching of profiles i came across yours and i was deeply moved in spirit to send you this mail and ask you if you will willingly help me transfer the money into your account.

As i have been studying marketing, i will like to invest in the field and if possible in your country,that was why i am writing you to ask you if you will assist me transfer and keep the money in your account so that i can come over to your country to finish my university education and invest the money with the help of you.

As a parent who knows what it takes to bring up achild,i know that you will not betray me when the money comes into your possesion.
please if you will help me please do it in the name of Allah if not because of me.

Please do something quick because i am surfering so much here in the camp here in senegal.could you imagine that there are no good water to drink no good food to eat no good room and bed to sleep on,infact as i was writing you now i am sick with maleria.

Please sir,if you will help me reply by consoling me with a possitive answer,so that i will give you the neccesary information and documents concerning the money so that you will contact the bank,and you will prepare my papers to enable me to come over to your country to finish my school.

Hoping to read from you soonest,my best regards to you and your family,
May Allah bless you.

Sincerely,
Nadiya Camara.

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