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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: "Sakar Mohammed" <sakar0303@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: sakar0202@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:46:25 +0100
Subject: I need your help INVESTMENT PURPOSE

ATTENTION:DEAR SIR/MADAM
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
I know that you will be surprised to receive this message.please consider this message as a request from a family in direneed of help. I am MR SAKAR MOHAMED from LIBERIA, the son of Brigadier OSAOMO MOHAMED .I got your contact through the SenegalInformation exchange {S.I.E} regarding your trustworthiness.My purpose of contacting you is to help me out of my difficult condition in view of my Father death.I need your assistance to help me to transfer some money out of SENEGAL into your personal or company's account.The amount involved is {US$7.000,000} SEVEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS. My late Father was in charge of arms purchasing for LIBERIA arms 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 SENEGAL in cash and i assure you that no body knows about this money except my Mother and me. All i am asking you is to assist us to trasfer this !
money out of SENEGAL for investment purposes.The reason being that I and my Mother are living in senegal as political asylum seekers and the financial laws of senegal 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 10% 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 reply. Please the assurance i will always give you is that this transaction is 100% risk free, as i do not want anything 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 SAKAR MOHAMED

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