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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:

• 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:
  • "% commission" (Beware of any scheme that involves depositing checks or money orders or receiving wire transfers in your bank account and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere, for a percentage of 5-15% of the total. Such offers are *always* fraudulent and you will be liable for the entire amount when the checks, money orders or wire transfers turn out to be fraudulent. Any money already forwarded comes out of *your* pocket then. )
• 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.
  • hassanalidu_pa@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: hassan alidu <hassan_alidupa33@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:15:05 -0500
Subject: WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU,



DEAR SIR,
IT IS WITH A REAL PLEASURE THAT I CONTACT YOU IN ORDER TO MAKE YOU SHARE AN OPPORTUNITY OF BUSINESSES AND FOR WHICH I SEEK A SERIOUS PARTNERHIP WITH YOU.

I AM PRINCE HASSAN ALIDU(SON), OF LATE FATHER CHIEF DANTA ALIDU(FATHER). I AM FROM A TOWN CALLED TAKWA WHICH IS THE REGION OR LAND WHERE GOLD IS MINED AND DIAMOND IN GHANA.I AM 26 YEARS OLD AND SUPPOSED TO TAKE OVER MY LATE FATHER'S POSITION AS OUR TRADITIONAL INHERITAGE, BUT DUE TO MY AGE THE ELDERS OF OUR VILLAGE DISAGREE AND INSTALLED A TEMPORARY CHIEF UNTIL I HAVE REACH THE AGE OF 40 YEARS. THE LOYALTY OF MY FATHER FROM THE GOLD MINES AS ALLOCATION REMAIN INTACH (KAAS MINING) AND NOW I HAVE 350 KILOS OF GOLD DUST AVAILABLE WITH DETAILS BELOW:
* ORIGIN: GHANA* QUANTITY: 350 KILOGRAMMES* QUALITY: 23.72 CARATS* NATURE: ALLUVIAL GOLD DUST* RATE OF PURITY: 98.88%* PRICE:$10,500 USD PER KILOGRAM

BEING AS A YOUNG MAN,AND THE ONLY SON OF CHIEF DANTA ALIDU,I WANT YOU TO ARRANGE BUYERS OR A BUYER WHO CAN BE ABLE TO PURCHASE THE ABOVE MENTIONED GOLD DUST AT THE STATED RATE MENTIONED ABOVE, AS I WILL COMPENSATE YOU WITH 12% COMMISSION OF THE SALES.
IN GHANA HERE THERE ARE PROCEDURES WHEREBY THE GOVERNMENT WANT ALL THE INDIGENS OF TAKWA TO SUBMIT THEIR GOLD DUST TO THEM SO THAT THEY CAN SELL WITH PMMC PROCEDURES BUT WE HAVE DONE THAT SEVERAL TIMES AND TILL NOW WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED UP TO 50% OF OUR TOTAL SALES FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNMENT PURCHASEPRICE IS $7,100 USD PER ONE KILO AND AT THE END OF THE DAY WE SHALL PUTPRESSURE ON THEM TO PAY US OUR MONEY AND IT TAKES LONG TO RECEIVE EVEN 50% APPROXIMATE FROM THE TOTAL SALES.
WE HAVE BEEN EXHAUSTED WITH THE GOVERNMENT PROCEDURES AND WE WANT A LINK TO SELL DIRECTLY TO OVERSEAS.DO CONTACT ME ON MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW: hassanalidu_pa@sify.com

THANKS AND WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU,
PRINCE HASSAN ALIDUACCRA, GHANA.
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