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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "hundred thousand u.s 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)
• 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.
  • sudan_dafur@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "hana_sudan@terra.es" <hana_sudan@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:18:45 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: PLEASE REPLY ME




Hello,

My name is Miss Hana Garage 18 years old from the Darfur, Sudan now

under (UNHCR) asylum protection in Ghana because of the war

in my native country.

My father was killed along side with my mother during the long civil war and

his properties were totally destroyed.

However, after their death I managed to escape with a very important file of

my father which stated that he deposited the sum of (US$4.5M) Four Million

Five Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars in one of the private security vault in Ghana.

The fund was registered, declared and deposited by my father as family

treasures for maximum security reasons.

I would appreciate you to represent me in withdrawing the

fund and also help me invest in profitable ventures since I have a limited

knowledge in the business world.

I need your friendship and trust to start living again and put our horrible

past behind us.I need you to become my family again because I live lonely here and have

no more family.

Thanks and God bless you.

Please send your reply only to :

Which is only the box I check for mail.

Yours

Hana

Email:sudan_dafur@hotmail.com





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