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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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• 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)
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Fraud email example:

From: diop camara <diop_cam2@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <diop_ca44@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:58:21 +0200
Subject: Salam aleikum


Salam aleikum, I will be pleased if only you could be able to give ears to what i have to this mail from me, i will first of all apologies for any inconvenience this mail might bring to you. I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity of transferring to your overseas account the sum of($ 10.500 M USD). Ten thousand five hundred Million United States Dollars from one of the Prime Banks here in Dakar Senegal. I am Diop Kamara (Bsc,Msc) the Auditor General of one of the prime banks here in Dakar Senegal , during the course of our auditing , I discovered a floating funds in an account opened in our bank since 1982 and till date no body has operated on this account, after going through old files and records, I discovered that the owner of this account died years back in an air crash along with his family without leaving a[His/WILL], hence the floating of the funds and which if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of the account was a foreigner , Engr. Rahim . S. Taha, an estate consultant. Therefore ,with a personal conviction of trust and confidence ,I wish to contact you as a foreigner, to stand as a relative , thus I can work out the release of the funds , No other person in the office knows about the account , please be rest assured of the risk free , I'm the one that will work it out , all I need is your co-operation, due to the account content can not be approved to an indigen here as his next of kin, according to the file content. At the conclusion of this project ,i propose a joint investment of an equal partnership to you or we may share it at a ratio of 45% for you and 45% for me 10% for the transfer expenses which can be spent by you or me. One more thing please; I beg you not to consider this against moral justification , they are other aspects of life in which we may contribute this funds to help the less privileged and the needy in a society than having it shared as an unclaimed bill among Government PLEASE . I look forward to your earliest response. Yours TrulyMr Diop Kamara

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