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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • nene_sankoh@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Nene Sankoh" <nene5_sankoh@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: nene_sankoh@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:18:14 +0100
Subject: ASKING FOR PARTNERSHIP

Hello Dear .

Please bear with me for the inconvinecy which i am creating to you. I am Miss Nene Sankoh, a Nationality of Sierra Leonne, West Africa. I got your contact through a very realiable source and as such i decided to contact you for partnership assistance.

My sole purpose of contacting you is for you to assist me in selling of my rough(uncutted) Diamonds and Gold which weighs 14,220 carats,from (3-45 carats),(3kg gross) on the scale,("H"VS-1 quality),all rough and worths about(US$9.5Million) the Diamond was deposited by my late father Foday Sankoh in a Security Firm and it is awaiting for my order to be transfered as the only daughter and the "NEXT OF KIN" to the deposit as it is indicated in all the depositional documents.
All i want is for the Diamonds to be deliverd to you in your country or anywhere you whish and after that we both will arrange my coming over to meet with you for the sales. 20% of the sales will be for you as compensation for your kind assistance and the remaining will be use for a very Good business investment that you know is very lucrative in your country which you know you can handle even in my absence.
Pls forward to me the following informaions bellow for easy communication and processing transfer of the gold and diamond to you, Reply to my private mail box please ( nene_sankoh@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:nene_sankoh@yahoo.co.uk>)
1 ) phone and fax contact,................................
2 ) your country and house address,...............................
3 ) your age and occupation.............................
Looking forward to hear from you.
Your In Confident,
Miss Nene Sankoh

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