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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a trustworthy foreign business partner" (the question is not whether they can trust you, but whether you have any reason to trust this person or anyone this person tells you to contact)
  • "trunk box" (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)
  • "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 orphan scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22505267081 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:41:32 +0200
Subject: From Michael Nawal




>From Michael Nawal
Telephone:+225 05 26 70 81


Dear Friend,


WITH THE BEST COMPLIMENTS OF THE YEAR,

I wish to solicit your help in migrating to your country, my name is Michael Nawal, the only son of Late Mr NAWAL the former Director of military inteligence and special acting General Manager of the Sierra Leone Diamond mining coperation(SLDMC ).

Before my late father died, he me told me that he deposited 25.5 million US dollars in a trunk box in my name as containing family valuables. So I am contacting you to seek your good assistance to assist me release the box from the Security Company and invest the money. This money is revenues from solid minerals and daimonds sale which were under my late father's possession before the civil war broke out.

Following the brake out of the war, almost all government offices, coperations and parastatals were attacked and vandalized. The SLDMC was loothed and burnt down to ashes, and diamonds worth millions of dollars was stolen by the rebel military forces who attacked my late father's office.

Many top government officials and senior army officers were assasinated and my late father was a key target because of his very sensitive military position and appointment in the SLDMC. Regreatably, my late father was captured and murdered along with half brother in cool blood during a mid-night rebel shoot-out when our official residence in freetown was armbushed by Fordey Sanko the notorious rebel leader.

This is why I am looking for a trustworthy foreign business partner who would help me to invest this money in profitable business venture overseas.

I have gone to the Security Company to make inquires about this deposit and I spoke with the Company concerning the deposit that I will come for the box once I have a foreign partner.

If you are willing to assist me, please let me know immediately so that I will send you all the documents concerning the deposit. Please note that I can only offer you 30% of the total money as compensation for your noble assistance in accordance with my late father's advice. I am interested in any profitable commercial venture which you consider very good in your country and you would also get a school for me.

I am hoping to hear your urgent response so that I can not look for another foreign partner.

Thank you and may God bless you and your dear family.

Yours sincerely
Michael Nawal





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