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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: sahra cisse <cisse_sahra01@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:43:58 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From Miss Sahra Cisse Shabangu


Hello My dear,
By introduction, My name is Sahra Cisse , I am 20years old now and I am the only child of Mrs Susan Cisse Shabangu who was untill her assacination, the Deputy Minister of Safety and Security, also the Vice-Chairperson of the National Labour and Development Institute in South Africa Republic.

The purpose of writting you this letter is because of business venture which I intend to establish in your country with your help, though I have not met with you before but I believe one has to risk, confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.
Presently, i am in Ivory Coast because of the money US$ 3.200.000.00 (three Million two hundred thousand USD.) which i inherited from my late mother. This fund is presently in a security company here in Cote d'Ivoire where my mother deposited it before she was killed by unknown persons.

Now i have decided to invest this money in your country or any where safe enough for my life and security purposes through your assistance as I have no idea of investment of fund and cant handle the retrieval of this fund myself. Please i want to know if you can be able to help me to retrieve and invest this fund in your country ?
I am willing to reward you very well with as much as you may need fom the fund if you can truly assist me in good faith.

Click on this site to read about my late mother:http://www.info.gov.za/gol/gcis_profile.jsp?id=1066

Please reply urgently for more details.
Yours Faithfully,

Miss Sahra Cisse Shabangu


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