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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • zahidsanusi@jmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "zahidsanusi Gazeta.pl" <zahidsanusi@gazeta.pl>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:16:52 +0400
Subject: GENUINE ASSISTANCE NEEDED


GENUINE ASSISTANCE NEEDED
From Mr.Zahid Sanusi
Private and Confidential
Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire.
Reply me through this e-mail Because of internet and security problem
(zahidsanusi@jmail.co.za)



CAN YOU HELP US INVEST OUR LATE FATHER FUND?????

Dear ,

Please kindly go through this letter before you pass judgment ,because I am
in need
of assistance. I am Mr.zahid Sanusi the son of late Alhaji Bugora Sanusi
from
Liberia. I must confess my agitation is real, and my words is my bond, in
this
proposal

My late father happens to be in control of a large number of farms including
cattle's and many sheep before he was poisoned by his foreign business
partners in
Paris with my mother in one of their farmers association meeting because of
greed.

But before his death my late father deposited some amount of money outside
our
country in bank at the tone of Four Million,Eight Hundred Thousand United
States
Dollars $4,800.000.00. So I and my little sister are no longer safe here as
the
present government of Liberia are working with almost all the killers of my
late
father as one of them has been just
be made a minister, name undisclosed because of security reasons.

Furthermore we have contacted the bank where the money is deposited and the
bankers
let us understand that they signed an agreement with our late father that
the total
money must be transferred into his foreign business partner account
undisclosed to
them and that is the major reason why i am contacting you now for
assistance.

All I needed from you now is your full names and address including your
direct and
personal telephone number for easy communication as you know that this
transaction
is a very confidential one.

Please Kindly get back to me immediately after you must have gone through my
message
fill free and make it urgent. That is the reason why I offered you 15 % of
the total
money amount, and in case of any other necessary expenses you might incur
during
this transaction.

N.B Try and negotiate for me some profitable blue chip investment
opportunities Like
which is risky free which I can invest with this money when it is
transferred from
the bank here, personally I am interested in


1) REAL ESTATE

2). THE TRANSPORT INDUSTRY

3). Hotel MANEGEMENT

management and hotel business, please advise me. For more explanation write
me
through my alternative e-mail address (zahidsanusi@jmail.co.za)

And promise me and my younger sister to be a good guardian considering our
situation
and not to betray us.

Thanks and God bless you and your family.
Best regards

Mr.zahid Sanusi

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