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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Salimata Bubar" <salimata_b@excite.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: salimata_b1@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:18:16 +0200
Subject: VERY IMPORTANT

Hello Dear,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into financial transaction
for our mutual benefits hence I write with due respect.
I am Salimata Bubar.a Sudanese currently living in Dakar
Senegal a west African coastal country It's really beautiful down here
so much sunshine and glorious clouds hanging high above in the sky.
my Father make a deposit in the
custody of security bank here in Dakar senegal with my name as the next of
kin and I want you to stand as my family foreign partner so that i can
nominate you to the security bank as my foreign beneficiary and recipient of
the deposit on my behalf.
For more information,my late Father deposited the safe box which concealed
the cash of us$8.5million and Diamond worth of us$2.8million in the Treasure
department of a security bank.
I want to move the deposit to your country and i need you to help me make
the claim and transfer with your name, do to the law guiding refugees here
did not permit me to make any official, transaction with my name.
I will like you to come in person in senegal to visit me and for us to go to
the security bank where the Diamond and the money was deposited but if you
can not be able to make it to come, i will give you the contact of the
security bank so that you contact them to discuss how the Diamond and the
money can be transfered to your position.
Please reply as soon as possible and contribute your idea for more
discussion on how to make a step forward.i will give you 10% of the total sum for your efort.
I am waiting to receive your reply soonest
Sincerely yours,
Ms.Salimata Bubar

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