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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: musa ali <musa_ali200720002003@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 09:03:42 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP


Dear Sir/Madam,

Wa-Salaam w'Ala ikum, walhamdililahi wabarakato, I hope you are in Peace of our dear Allah, May he Bless you abundantly.? I guess you might be astonish to receive this request from me, as am still a stranger to you. Before proceeding, I will like to introduce myself a little bit to you, my name is MUSA ALI , the son of ALI AL-BAJAJI , popularly known as ALI Chemicals in Iraq.

My dad was killed by the coalition forceses of America, during their attack in our country as the war is still going on, with what is still going on in our country, the American want to take over the whole places and no one knows what is going to be the result, that is why I am drawing your attention to the total sum of US$ 7.2 Million (seven million tow hundred thousand United States dollars) which my father have been storing in one of his private room in our compound. That was moved out of our country with the help of one United Nation to Malaysia. This money was moved successfully and now we need a truthful and honest person to help us transfer this money to his/her account, as we don't know our father's foreign account details. (Due to his sudden death)

But before the American could take cover of our country we have manage to move this money to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, with the help of United Nations, and at this very moment this money is in the office of the United Nation in Malaysia. We are seeking for your urgent assistance to help us go to Malaysia and I will be giving you the contact details of the agency in Malaysia, for you to be able to go there and transfer this money into your private or company account, for us to have future again in our life, as we have lost our beloved dad.

For your kind interest and willingness to help us, we will be giving you 15% of the total money, and the remaining 85% will be for us.If then you are interested please don’t hesitate to write me back for
more details on how this transaction can be done.

Thanks and may God bless us through this transaction.

Wasalaam

Yours Truly,

MUSA ALI.




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