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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 us 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)
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: sulu mpundu <sulumpoudu2006@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <sulumpundu2006@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:08:25 +0000
Subject: URGENT PLEASE



Dear Sir, First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this letter
and I pray that my decision to contact you will be given a genuine approval
considering the fact we have not known each other before, please consider my
proposal very well and get back to me immediately. My name is Sulu
Mpundu. A Zimbabwe citizen. I am a first son of late minister Morgan Mpundu. The
former minister of forestry commission in Zimbabwe, I am writing to inform you
of our family desire to invest in your country due to her economic and political
stability in Zimbabwe country. Sir, my father was killed by gunmen gang
in capital city of Zimbabwe. Is a member of the minority leader in parliament in
Zimbabwe, before my father was killed in river sea side he revealed to me and my
mother about his fund $22.600million us dollars (twenty two million six hundred
thousand united state dollars). He deposited in Security Company in
Ghana Accra. He handed over all the deposited documents to me such as
certificate deposit issued to him during the time of deposit. Mean while, me and
my younger sister and my mother are here in Accra Ghana seeking for
refuge. Please sir, we need your assistance and we want you to lecture
us how best we can invest this money in your country as soon as the money been
transferred into your account; we would fly down to your country for the
business that you may recommend to us. We have decided to offer you 15%
of the total amount for your assistance while 5% will be map out for other
expenses.I want you to also furnish me with the following
information:1. Your private telephone/fax or preferably your mobile
numbers.2. Your full names and address.3. Your Full Details where the
Fund will be transferred to.Thank you in advance for your anticipated
co-operation. I shall give you more details on what we are to do to claim the
Fund without any hitch. thanks in advance and may god bless you. Best
regardsSulu Mpundu
_________________________________________________________________
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