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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states 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: "muhamed musa" <muhamed.musa5@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 02:48:07 +0200
Subject: Salam aleikum dear,


Salam aleikum dear,

I will be pleased if only you could be able to give ears to what i have to
this mail from me, i will first of all apologies for any inconvenience this
mail might bring to you.

I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity of transferring to your
overseas account the sum of($28.500 M USD). Twenty eight million, five
hundred thousand United States Dollars from one of the Prime Banks here in
Dakar Senegal.

I am Mr Muhamed Musa (Bsc,Msc) the Auditor General of one of the prime
banks here in Dakar Senegal , during the course of our auditing , I
discovered a floating funds in an account opened in our bank since 1992 and
till date no body has operated on this account, after going through old
files and records, I discovered that the owner of this account died years
back in an air crash along with his family without leaving a[His/WILL],
hence the floating of the funds and which if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

Therefore ,with a personal conviction of trust and confidence ,I wish to
contact you as a foreigner, to stand as a relative , thus I can work out the
release of the funds , No other person in the office knows about the account
, please be rest assured of the risk free , I'm the one that will work it
out , all I need is your co-operation, due to the account content can not be
approved to an indigen here as his next of kin, according to the file
content.

At the conclusion of this project ,i propose a joint investment of an equal
partnership to you or we may share it at a ratio of 40% for you and 50% for
me 10% for the transfer expenses which can be spent by you or me. One more
thing please; I beg you not to consider this against moral justification ,
they are other aspects of life in which we may contribute this funds to help
the less privileged and the needy in a society than having it shared as an
unclaimed bill among Government PLEASE .

I look forward to your earliest response.

Yours Truly,

Mr Muhamed Musa.

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