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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 friend" (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: "Mrs. Nada Abakar Omer" <nadaomer@easymail.hu> (may be fake)
Reply-To: nada.omer@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:04:36 -0700
Subject: Greetings from Sudan

FROM: MRS. NADA ABAKAR OMER.
Western Darfur State,
SUDAN.

Dear Friend,

GREETINGS!

Please accept my apology for sending this mail to you as I am soliciting for your assistance, to help me out in my condition. From all index, I believe that you are a highly respected personality with records of proven integrity, considering the fact that I sourced your contact from the database of your country. Though I do not know to what extent you are familiar with this crisis caused by the Oil situation in SUDAN, which has formed consistent headlines on CNN and BBC NEWS bulletins.

I am Mrs. Nada Abakar Omer, I hail from Nyala in western Darfur State of Western Sudan. I am writing to inform you of my desire to relocate and invest in your country. I am the wife of Mr. Adam Abakar Omer, an Oil merchant in SUDAN who was killed on his way to travel out of the country due to the present crisis in our country (SUDAN).

After the gun shots from the adversary, the UN peacekeeping force rescued my late husband and rushed him to the hospital for medical treatment where he later died. While on the hospital bed before he died, he informed me about the Eighteen Million, Two Hundred Thousand US Dollars, which he deposited in a security company through diplomatic means for safekeeping. He also disclosed to me where he kept the documents, which I located along with the contact details of the security company where the deposit was made in a box as family valuables.

Since my husband's brutal murder, I was confided only to our country home suppressed and monitored that is why I am contacting you to represent me at the security company to sign off and clear the deposited box (fund) on my behalf as my accredited representative for possible investment in your country or anywhere as you would advise.

Upon your positive response, I shall furnish you with further details on how to contact the security company and the lawyer in Ghana. I will also forward to you copies of the certificate of deposit and other documents to enable you contact the Security Company and the lawyer.

For your assistance, I am willing to give you 30% of the total sum, 5% for envisaged expenses from both sides, while the remaining 65% will be for me.

Kindly get back to me.

Best regards,

Mrs. Nada Abakar Omer

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