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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "can i trust you?" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • huruna00@jmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Huruna Zaki" <huruna00@jumpy.it> (may be fake)
Reply-To: huruna00@myway.com
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:21:40 +0200
Subject: INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED

CAN I TRUST YOU???????

CONFIDENTIAL/ CONFIDENTIAL// CONFIDENTIAL///

Dearest Beloved,

Please kindly go through this letter before you pass judgment because I am in need of assistance.
I am Mr.Huruna Zaki the son of late Alhaji Sadique Zaki from Sierra Leone.I must confess
my agitation is real, and my words is my bond, in this proposal

My late father happens to be in control of a large number of farms including cattle’s
and many sheep before he was poisioned by his foreign business partners in Paris with
my mother in one of their farmers assication meeting because of greed.

But before his death my late father deposited some amount of money outside our country
in bank at the tone of Four Million United States Dollars $4,000.000.00. So i and my
little sister are no longer safe here as the present government of Sierra Leone are
working with almost all the killers of my late father as one of them has been just
be made a minister, name undisclosed because of security reasons.

Furthermore we have contacted the bank where the money is depsoited and the bankers
let us understand that they signed an agreement with our late father that the total
money must be transferred into his foreign business partner account undisclosed to
them and that is the major reason why i am contacting you now for assistance.

All I needed from you now is your full names and address including your direct and
personal telephone number for easy communication as you know that this transaction
is a very confidential one.

Please Kindly get back to me immediately after you must have gone through my message
fill free and make it urgent. That is the reason why I offered you 15 % of the total
money amount, and in case of any other necessary expenses you might incur during this
transaction.

N.B Try and negotiate for me some profitable blue chip investment opportunities which
is risky free which I can invest with this money when it is transferrred from the bank here,
personally I am interested in estate management and hotel business, please advise me.
For more explanation write me through my alternative e-mail address (huruna00@jmail.co.za)
If only you are touched to assist us.

And promise me and my younger sister to be a father considering our situation and not to
betray us.

Thanks and God bless you and your family.
Best regards

Mr.Huruna Zaki

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