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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: "Sully Malick" <s_malick@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: s_malick@fsmail.net
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:18:34 +0200
Subject: A Girl From African(Sully Malick By Name)

Dearest,

I got your contact from the Ecowas Infomation Center in Senegal
during my search of trustee.My sources of your contact gave me
the courage and confidence.Itis my pleasure to contact you for a
business venture which I intend to establish in your country,
though I have not met with you before but I believe one has to
risk confiding in success sometimes in life. I am Sully Malick,
the daughter of the former minister for defence and interior
below is my picture.There is this amount of US$6.8million (Six
Million Eight Hundred Thousand Unitedstate Dollars) which my late
father kept for me in Bank here in senegal dakar before he was
piosioned to death by his business associate.


Now I want to invest these money in your country or anywhere
save enough outside Africa for security and political reasons.
I want you to help me claim and retrieved these fund from the
Fiduciary Fund Holders and Transfer it into your personal
account in your country for investment purposes on profitable
ventures. If you can be of an assistance to me,we will pleased
to offer you 20% of the total fund. while 10% of the total
fund will go for any expenses incur by you during the process.
I await your soon response through my private mailbox:


N.B. Upon your interest, I will forward you the security company
contact immediately .

Respectfully yours,

Sully Malick.

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