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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.
  • su_malick@yahoo.co.in

Fraud email example:

From: "sully malick" <s_malick@walla.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 23:21:35 +0000
Subject: Private Mail(from sully malick).

Hello Dearest One,

I got your contact from the Ecowas Infomation Center in Senegal.My
sources of your contact gave me the courage and confidence. It is my
pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to estab-
lish 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 .There is this amount of
US$6.8million (Six Million Eight Hundred Thousand United state
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:(su_malick@yahoo.co.in)

N.B. Upon your interest, I will need your personal contact as
followingfor easy communication on this project.

Your house Addres........................
Your Phone Number .......................
Your Fax Number .........................

I will also forward to you the security company contact immediately.

Respectfully yours,
Sully Malick.

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