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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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Fraud email example:

From: ibrahim omar <ibrahimomar2001@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 23:29:56 +0100 (BST)
Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL


FROM IBRAHIM OMAR
16 WILAMS STREET
CAPE TOWN
SOUTH AFRICAN
EMAIL;ibrahimomar2001@yahoo.co.uk

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
ATTN: Sir/madam,

I know that you will be surprised to receive this letter. Please consider this letter as a request from
a family in dire need of help. I am MR IBRAHIM OMAR from LIBERIA, the son of Brigadier PATRICK OMAR. I got your contact through the South African Information Exchange [S.A.I.E ]. Regarding your trustworthiness, my purpose of contacting you is to help me out of my difficult condition in view of my fathers death. I need your assistance to help me to transfer some money out of South Africa into your personal or Company’s account.

The amount involved is US$19 MILLION (NINETEEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS). My late father was in charge of arms purchasing for LIBERIA armed forces and he generated this money in the course of purchasing arms for LIBERIA armed forces. He deposited this money with a private security company here in South African cash and I assure you that no body knows about this money except my mother SARAH OMAR and me.

All I am asking you is to assist us to transfer this money out of South Africa for investment purposes. The reason being that I and my two brothers are living in South Africa as political asylum seekers and the financial laws of south Africa do not allow Asylum Seekers certain financial rights, hence I shall be very grateful if you can assist us. For your efforts, I am prepared to offer you 35% of the total money while 5% will be set aside for local and international expenses incurred during the course of this transaction.

As soon as you get this message, please contact my mother or me on this mail ibrahimomar2001@yahoo.co.uk or with this number or you can fax me with the above fax number because of my poor English and also l need your private telephone and fax numbers. The assurance I will always give you is that this transaction is 100% risk free, as I do not want any thing to happen to this money.

Finally, if you are not interested, I will like you to always keep the confidentiality of this transaction.

Best regards,
MR IBRAHIM OMAR







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