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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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• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • salas50@rediffmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr salas tatu" <salas12@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: salas_director@yahoo.ca
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:08:39 +0000
Subject: golden handshake


salas50@rediffmail.com
I am Dr. salas tatu+, Director of Project, ghana
Department of Minerals and Energy. I am making this
contact with you
based on the committee's need for an individual/company
who is willing
to assist us with a solution to a money transfer.

This amount $28.5m represents the balance of the total
contract value executed on behalf of Department by a
foreign contracting firm, which we the officials
over-invoiced deliberately, of which the actual sum has
been paid.

Should you be willing to assist us in the transaction,
your share of the
sum will be 25% of the $28.5 million, 70% for us and 5%
for taxation and
miscelleneous expenses.

I await your immediate response.

Yours faithfully,

Dr. salas tatu.



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