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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22507369145 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • kasibsanusi1@jmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "kasib sanusi" <kasibsanusi@colombia.com>
Reply-To: kasibsanusi1@jmail.co.za
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 19:14:52 +0000
Subject: CAN I CONFIDE IN YOU


*Dearest Beloved,**
*

* Please I am very sorry for intruding into your privacy this way without
your permission. What I am about to tell you will sound very strange to you
since we haven't met nor knowing each other before. I got your contact
through a search in the internet and decided to contact you for your
assistance and help.*

* I am the only son of Late Dr Alahaji Bugora Sanusi the deputy minister of
national security under the leadership of former Liberian president Charles
Taylor. My name is Kasib Sanusi and I am 19 years old. Due to the urgency of
my situation here that is why I decided to contact you.*

* Actually, i need your help to transfer the sum of 4.8 million$ which my
late father deposited in a bank in **Abidjan** **Cote d'Ivoire** to your
country. I am in a refugee camp in **Abidjan** **Cote d'Ivoire** where I ran
for safety reasons. After the assassination of my late father, my step
mother maid things become so difficult for me to the extend she wanted
killing me so that she could have all the inheritance all to herself alone.
*

* Therefore I had to run away to our neighboring country **Cote
d'Ivoire**where the fund was deposited too in one of the leading banks
here in
**Africa** called ECOBANK. I need you to contact this bank on my behalf as
the associate of my late father and transfer this fund into your account,
then after that you will help me get my papers to come over to your country
to stay and continue my education. You will also help me to invest this fund
in a good business until I am capable to handle it myself.*

* The reasons why I am contacting you are as follows.*

*1. My late father deposited this fund in an Escrow account indicating
transfer only to a foreign account for investment, and i do not have any.*

*2. A foreign associates was indicated in the agreements he had with the
bank which he signed with them incase of his absent. I have with me the
Certificate of Deposit and Agreements to clarify you about this.*

*3.I cannot finance this transaction because of the nature of the deposit of
the fund ,I can't make any withdrawal until the fund is transferred to a
foreign account.*

* I just want you help me take responsibility of this transaction as the
associate of my late father. I will have to introduce you to the bank as the
foreign associate of my late father if you have accepted to help me for them
to be able to relate with you and let you know the process of this
transaction.*

* I am assuring you that this transaction is 100% free risk and there is
nothing you have to worry about but incase of doubt and you need more
clarification I prefer you calling me on this mobile number +225 07369145
so that we can talk or write me through my private email address where I
normally check my emails **kasibsanusi1@jmail.co.za*<kasibsanusi1@jmail.co.za>
* *

* Think over this very well and get back to me and let me know your
decision. All the same I want you to know that I promise to offer you 15% of
the fund for your assistance and will ever remain grateful to you. Now I
wait for your urgent response before we further ahead to what next to do.*

* Thank you very much for your time and understanding. Remain bless and I
wish you the best. Life has not been easy for me now since the death of my
late father and my family was really affected during the war in **Liberia**.
I have no one and no where to go that is why I seek for your help and for
you to accept me as your son and a member of your family.*

* *

* Thanks once again and I hope I can count on you.*

* *

* Yours sincerely*

* *

* Kasib Sanusi.*

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