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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • wilsonsahiru@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: wilsonsahiru55@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:04:14 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?STORY=20OF=20MY=20LIFE=20=2CA=20PLEA=20FOR=20ASSISTANCE?=

Dear friend,

I know that this is not the best way to contact you with
this proposal,considering the act of fraud in the world together. but this
is the easiest and cheapest medium for me that is why i am doing so.
My name is Wilson Sahiru i am 22yrs old from the Republic of Sudan and the
only surving son of Dr. Benjamine Sahiru a former oil and steel engineer
based in the southern part of sudan who was involved in a plane crash along
side with six Ukrainians supplying aid to Sudan victims. They went to the
united Arab emirates to seek for alms for those affected by the war and
on their way to sudan the plane crashed in the desert killing all of them
on board.
My late father was a very hard working man whom has contributed to the assistance
of orphanage homes and churches in the whole of africa. He was a man who
likes travelling and has travelled to many countries in the world based
on his humanitarian assistance and job to be precise. Now the life of my
family has been turned up side down and the only thing left for me as the
only son of my father is the money he deposited with a bank in Ghana.
During the time he was working with the government, he had saved this money
as an engineer working with foreign oil investors.
Please i am seeking your assistance because the bank has asked me to provide
a foreign beneficiary to help me transfer the fund since i am a refugee.
this is why i am contacting and you and i plead with you I would like to
know from you what percentage of the fund would you take for norminating
your account.
What area of investment opportunites are sure in your country.
Would you like to be my foreign partner so that we invest the fund together.
Please come up with your full information and i shall have time to time
discussions with you before i can give you deposit slip and the contact
of the bank.
Please i want you to treat this as a confidential proposal and may God bless
you.

Yours Faithfully,
Wilson Sahiru
email wilsonsahiru@yahoo.com

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