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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:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:53:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Hello dear ,




Hello dear ,

Due to my careful search for an honest, reliable and sincere business partn=
er, i got your contact from internet and i ask if you can be trusted not to=
break an agreement? Still, it took me time to make up my mind to contact y=
ou and to offer you this proposal of mine of which my whole life depends on=
..

My name is Miss Mariama Shour, the daughter of Mr. Behki Nawaf=A0Shour of b=
lessed memory from Zimbabwe.During the current crises against the farmers i=
n Zimbabwe from the supports of President Robert Mugabe to claim all the wh=
ite-owned farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all whit=
e farmers to surrender all farms to his party members and his followers.

My father is One of the most successful multy farmers in our country and be=
cause he did not support Mugabe`s ideas, Mugabes supporters invaded his far=
m and burnt everything in the farm, killing him and made away with a lot of=
items in my fathers farm. Before his death, my father had deposited with B=
ANK IN ABROAD the sum of (USD $11.5 MILLION).

After the death of my father, I decided to move then to=A0Senegal where l r=
e-located under political asylum as a refugee to seek for foriegn partner o=
verseas that will assist me to move this money out of THE BANK to your coun=
try as i have made up my mind to invest and live in your country.

As an asylum seeker i am not allowed to operate any Bank Account within=A0S=
enegal ,I have agreed to offer you 15% of the total sum for your assistance=
as soon as the money get`s into your account while 8% will be mapped out f=
or any expences that may be incurred in the course of this transaction both=
local and international.

I want truth and honest to be our watch-word in this transaction and please=
treat this transaction strictly confidential for the successful out come o=
f it. All I want you to do is to furnish me with your personal phone and fa=
x numbers and also your private e-mail address for easy and urgent communic=
ation.

Note that this transaction is 100% Risk free and absolutely confidential.=
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Thanks and God bless you.
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Sincerely Yours,
Mariama Shour=0A=0A=0A

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