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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:
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "foreign exchange" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "chief auditor" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Morare dop" <mo_diop11@unimail.mn>
Reply-To: moraree_diop@ymail.com
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:54:08 +0000
Subject: FROM .D.MORARE


please this is an opportunity to you
Alh.Moraree diop
The chief Auditor Incharge, F.R.U.
African Development Bank (ADB).
Ouagadougou Burkina-faso West Africa.

I will appreciate your urgent response to my email and i assure you that
this transfer will surely improve our lives and those around us.

I am Alh. moraree diop, I work in the International Operation Department of
a prime bank here in Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso. I believe and feel quite safe
revealing this important business and will be glad to execute it with you.

My assurance to you is that,this transaction is 100% risk and trouble free
to both parties. I am only contacting you who is a foreigner because my bank
is going to welcome you as a foreigner that has correct information about
the account as i will fornish to you before we proceed.

I got your mail contact from the International directory and will be glad to
do this business with you. for more information and proper understanding
about the deceased person, contact me and i will give you full details about
the whole process.During my last momentary auditing, i discovered that this
man holds an account in my bank which he left no beneficiary.

My investigation proved to me as well that his company and family does not
know anything about this very account. The tranferable amount is Nineteen
Million Three Hundred Thousand United State Dollars and I want this fund to
be transfered into a safe Foreign Account abroad. So i need your full
co-operation to make this work fine.

If you are capable of handling such an amount in strict confidence and trust
we will achieve this total fund. I will also use my position to influence
and affect legal approvals for immediate onward transfer of this fund into
your account with appropriate clearance from the ministries and foreign
exchange department.

As soon as the transfer is concluded,you are entitled to 39% out of the
total funds. Please reply me with the address bellow.

Sincerely Yours,
Moraree diop Mr.Auditor
Tell : 00226 70437606
Private Email: moraree_diop@ymail.com

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