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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.
• 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.
  • salumon_faruk888@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: wapi meso <wapi_meso@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <salumon_faruk888@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:12:45 +0000
Subject: Dearest One Mr Ron



From Salumon Faruk, Dearest One Mr Ron: Greetings in the name of our Almighty Allah .I am Salumon Faruk from Sierra Leone. I am contacting you from Rep of Cote d’Ivoire where we have been taking refuge with my younger sister Amina Faruk, after the brutal war which led the Murder of our parents by the rebels during the renewed Fighting in our country Sierra Leone. Due to the war our late Father Alhaji Waheed Faruk sold his shipping company and deposited fund in over sea and took us to a nearby country Cote d'Ivoire and he made all the vital documents with my name as his only son and the next of kin before his death and conditioned the money no withdrawal, no deductible and only to be transfer to a foreign partner's account in a country of our choice. Please, we find your name and contact in our father's secret file and we prayed before contacting you and with the trust in Allah that you will be of good help to me and my younger sister Amina Faruk. who is seriously sick now.We are seeking for your assistance to help us transfer this Money into your nominated account. Please remember that we cannot make use of this money here due to the condition my father placed on it.Please have mercy upon the poor Orphans like us and help us out of this situation. As soon as this money is Re-transferred into your nominated account oversea, we are willing to offer you 20% of the total sum for your assistance and 5% of any investment you will do for us.kindly reply to me through this E-mail: salumon_faruk888@yahoo.fr I look forward to hearing from you immediately as our Almighty Allah will bless you.Best Regards,Salumon Faruk.
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