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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348028354993 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • michealsally101@zwallet.com

Fraud email example:

From: "michael Sally" <michaelsally100@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: michealsally101@zwallet.com
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:35:48 +0000
Subject: VERY URGENT

SALLY OIL LIMITED
126 rue boulvard ,presidential avenue,
sao tome and principe.
Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Mr michael sally enrique and I am a 40 years old man.I am acitizen of
the dominican republic living in the oil island of sao tome and principe. I
am the President/CEO sally oil limited- an oil servicing company in sao tome
with business interests spread all over europe,asia, latin
america .

I am searching for representatives who can help me
establish a medium of getting my fund (40musd) from the firm where i
deposited it for safety and also making payments through you to
me.Presently, I am in the hospital in the west africa nigeria where I have
been undergoing treatment for oesophageal cancer which has hindered my
physical movement and my doctors have told me that I would not be physically
fit to travel .I cannot live with the agony of entrusting this huge
responsibility to any of my relatives, friends or lawyer,because ever since
my illness worsened,they have plundered my wealth to a level that i can not
entrust such a huge amount of funds to them.

Please if you are interested in acting as my epresentative in receiving my
fund from the financial firm i will be very glad as i intend to come over to
your country and invest when i get well soonest .Please contact me on my
private email box (michealsally101@zwallet.com)
and also call me here on my private telephone number (+234-8028354993) for
more information.Subject to your satisfaction you will be given the
opportunity to negotiate your mode and renumeration for your services as my
representative in canada,america and europe but i will be offering you
20percent of the total for your assistance .

Regards.
President
michael sally

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