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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "confidential business" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Sani Umar" <mrsani007@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: mrsani0@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:49:05 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONE.


*Good day my dear friend, *
**
*I assumed you are in good health with your family.*
**
*I am Mr. Sani Umar I work as the Foreign Operations Manager with the
African Development Bank Group here in Burkina Faso. Although the world is
very small place and hard place to meet people because you don't know who to
trust or believe, but as I have developed the trust in you after my fasting
and praying, i made up my mind to confide this confidential business
suggestion to you. *
**
*There is an over due unclaimed sum of Thirteen Million Two Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars ($13,200,000.00) in my bank, belonging to one of our
dead foreign customers. There were no beneficiaries stated concerning these
funds. Therefore, your request as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the
claim and release of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as
the as the Foreign Business Partner to the deceased. *
**
*On the transfer of this fund in your account, you will take 32%
{US$4,224,000.00} as your share from the total fund, 5% {US$660,000.00},
will be shared to Charitable Organizations, Motherless Babies homes,disabled
helpless people in both our country as the balance will be for me. *
**
*Please if you are really sure of your trustworthy, integerity,
accountability and confidentiality on this deal, contact me with your
profiles inclusing private telephone (Mobile) number for easy communication.
*
**
*I am looking forward to read from you soonest.*
**
*Yours faithfully,*
**
*Mr Sani Umar*

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