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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "andrew_ndazi01@terra.es" <andrew_ndazi01@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:55:08 +0100 (MET)
Subject: READ AND REPLY US AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, PLEASE.





Dear Friend,





I am ANDREW NDAZI, the first son of late chief JOSEPH NDAZI, from mende District in Sierra Leone.





I need your Assistance to transfer our cash of twenty One million eight hundred thousand Dollars ($21,800,000) now in the custody of a security and trust Company to your private account pending our arrival to your country. SOURCE OF THE MONEY:





My late father, Chief JOSEPH NDAZI, a native of mende district in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone, was the general Manager of The National Mining Co-operation (N.M.C.) Freetown. According to my father:





This money was the income accrued from mining Co- operations over Draft And minor sales. Before the peak of the civil war between the rebelForces of Major Paul Koroma and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace Keeping operation that almost destroyed my country, following theForceful removal from power of the Civilian Elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels.





My father had already made arrangement for his family (my mother, my Younger sister and myself) to be evacuated to a neighboring West African country, with our personal effects and the box containing the money.





My father deposited the box in a private Security Company where it was Further freighted to Europe for safe custody until after the war when he will join us.





During the war in my country, and following the indiscriminate looting of public and Government properties by the rebel forces, the mining coop. was one of the targets looted and destroyed. My father including Other top government functionaries were attacked and killed by the Rebels because of his relationship with the civilian government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah As a result of my father death, and with the news of my Uncles involvement in an air crash last May 2005 our hope of Survival was completely dashed.





Do reply to this mail for more details.





Andrew Ndazi





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