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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:
  • "% will be for you" (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)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: omarabdul010@sify.com
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:25:32 +0000
Subject: Hello.


Hello,

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to
establish in your country. Though I have not met with you before but
considering the recent political instabilities in my country - Sudan, I
believe one has to risk confiding in success sometimes in life. There is
this huge amount of Twelve million U.S dollars which my late Father
deposited in Burkina Faso, awaiting claim before he was assassinated by
unknown persons during this present war in our province of Dafur in Sudan .
Now I have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe
enough that you can advise outside Africa for security and political
reasons. I want you to help me retrieve this money for onward transfer to
any designated bank account of your choice for investment purposes on these
areas below:

1) Transport Industry

2) Mechanized agriculture.

3} Estate investment

We have to negotiate on what will be offered to you for assisting me to
handle this project while 25% will be for you annually from the profit of
the partnership company we are to establish.Pleaase, read more on the news

www.savedarfur.org

I wait for your kind consideration to my plight.

Best Regards,

C.Quattara.

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