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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • rukkyatu_sule@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ms Rukkyatu Suleiman." <rukkyatu_sule9@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: rukkyatu_sule2@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:14:41 +0200
Subject: Good Day, From Ms Rukkyatu.

>From MS.RUKKYATU SULEIMAN.
I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE
Attn :

Good day to you, I hope fine, dear am writing this mail with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously I am asking for your assistance,i have gone through your profile and will be very glad if you can render me assistance to my situation now. My
name is Ms Rukkyatu Suleiman a 20 years,a citizen of Sierra - Leone , Daugther of late
Dr.Mahmoud Suleiman.

Befor the death of my father he took me to Senegal we he Deposit the sum of Five Million Six hundred thousand us Dollar ($5.6million).This money was deposited in Bank in west African. My aim of contacting you is to seek for your able assistance as a front in transferring this fund abroad into an account , then as a business developer , you can help me to invest wisely in areas you deem lucrative and finally obtain a residential permit for me to stay comfortable in your country of abode.
Presently i cannot go back to my country because of the situation
there and My fathers Brothers want kill me and Crime all my late father investment as a result that i am a woman that i didn't have any right in my father wealth i run away with my father document Box to Senegal in refugee camp for my security.we therefore i wish you could help me get out of here before it become worse.

I am prepared to offer you 20% of the total funds for your able
assistance and support and would send you proofs of the funds as soon as i
favorably hear from you. True my private Email rukkyatu_sule@myway.com

Finally I implore you to treat this transaction with secrecy and confidentiality for security reasons.
I Need Your Information's
HOME ADDRESS N;0..................................
TELEPHONE NUMBER..................................
ACCOUNT NUMBER....................................
FAX NUMBER........................................
YOUR FULL NAME....................................
Thanking,
You in anticipation and Allah bless your
Ms. Rukkyatu Suleiman

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