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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: hadiza balarabe <hadiza_bala02@yahoo.ca>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:50:43 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Your email


My Dear VICTIMNAME
Thanks for your response to my request for assistance.I am very happy to hear from you.Please for us to succeed on this transaction we need TRUST,TRANSPARENCY HONEST AND CONFIDENTIALITY.Really you said that you receive such mails which is suprising but i cannot say because many other people have one problem or the other due to instability in our continent.Though you never let me know if the people you deal before are not serious .I quite need your assistance and i am soo serious about it as you can see from what is happening in my country.

My main aim is for you to receive this fund into your care.Again receving me when i will come to join you for the investment proper which will be under your supervision because i have never been in business ever before.Again,understand that my late husband's kinsmen will like to take away this money from me if they happen to know about the money,hence i will like you to give me adequate protection when we will join you in your country.You may like to know that through the help of a Red Cross staff this fund am telling you about have been moved to Europe and deposited in a security company there.Now,there is now it is what you will see yourself in cash,for you to confirm that i mean what am saying and that i mean well for both of us.Immediately you indicate your readiness to assist,i will then give you the full informations.

Meanwhile i will like you to take a short visit here so that we can see ourself face to face and go together to the firm for the retrieval of this fund.Please i want you to maintian this transaction confidential for the benefit of both of us.

Please,i am waiting for your reply so that we will start processing the release of the fund in your name.
Best Regards,
Hadiza.





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