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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:
  • "million us dollars" (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "bangura cisse" <bangura2020@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: bangura1010@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:59:32 +0000
Subject: help me to invest in your country

Dear Sir,
May the blessing of Allah be upon you and grant you the wisdom and sympathy to understand my situation and how much I need your help. I am Mr Bangura Cisse, the son of Coulibaly Cisse a Gold and diamonds exporter. I am writing to express my interest in real estate or landed properties in your country. Though my father died during a political conflict months ago. Before his untimely death, he instructed me to leave the country for my safety and start up a business somewhere out side Africa .

The sum of ($19.000.000 million US Dollars) was deposited in at the Bank by my late father with my name as the next of kin.The fund are sealed and deposited in the Bank Vault as family treasures.I started searching on the internet where I got your email contact address.No one else is aware of my proposal to you. Due to social, economic and political instability in African region I decided to seek your assistance in transfering this money to your country for profitable and lucrative investments in your country.I have information of the deposit at the bank but I can not help myself if let alone this is why i seek your kind help.
Transaction of this nature demands the highest trust and confidence between yourself, company and myself.Please, if interested to help me, I will be glad to disclose more information to you before we move to the Bank for the claiming exercise of my rightful inheritance.Please reply very urgently.
Thanking you in advance and God bless!
Mr Bangura Cisse

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