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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "trunk box" (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 orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Anifat Yaao <may-ani@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <anifat_yaro@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:00:07 +0000
Subject: From Anifat.



Dear thought,

Miss Anifat Y.Malwal is my name from sudan.I know you will be surprise to receive this mail from a total stranger like me anyway,I got your contact on my desperately searching for a reliable and trustworthy foreign friend who can help me realize my education though things can never be the same again,and i decided to seek for your assistance.
My late father,Mr Joseph Y.Malwal the EX-Minister for Aviation and Tourism also one of the prominent cotton dealers in north-west of Nyala the capital of Southern Darfur region Sudan)was murdered in cold blood early last year along with my mother in dafur region by Janjaweed militia rebels that has been fighting against the legitimate Government in my country since 1992. When I got home from school to seen the remains of my late parent other family memebers,and our houses burnt down.But before his untimely death,he disclosed a locked trunk box containting total sum of (5Million euros)deposited in a security company here in burkina faso as a family tresure for safety reason to me.And till now,the security company management was ignorant of the real contents of the box.

This money was meant to build an ultral mordern medical Clinic for me after I have complete my studies and obtain my degree as a qualified Dorctor,but untimely death of my parent denied me this good opportunity. As the next of kin and the only solving child,i have decided to relocate abroad finally for safety reason.This's main character i need a reliable and trustworthy foreign friend outside Africa to retrieve the money and divert it abroad and subsequently invest it wisely under him/her kind supervision to enable me complete my academic.

If you're willing to adopt me as your daughter,i will issue you a letter of authority to deal with the security company directly.While i will guide you step by step with the relevant docvuments as it was inherited from my late father to make it a sweatless claim.

I equally insist you make it a very private and confidential matter to keep away government prey eyes on me.I look forward to hear from you soonest. Best Regards,Anifat.
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