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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:
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "robert mugabe" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Najya F. Muwafaq" <remittance@hqtreasury.com>
Reply-To: naj_muwafaq@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:55:50 +0800
Subject: For Your Kind Attention.


Hello Dear,



For Your Kind Attention.



Due to my careful search for an honest, reliable & sincere someone, i got
your contact from internet & i ask if you can be trusted not to break an
agreement? Still, it took me time to make up my mind to contact you & to
offer you this proposal of mine of which my whole life depends on.



My name is Miss Najya Fatima Muwafaq, the daughter of Mr. Sulayman Sayid
Muwafaq of blessed memory from Zimbabwe, During the current crises against
the white farmers in Zimbabwe from the supports of President Robert Mugabe
to claim all the white-owned farms to his party members & his followers, he
ordered all white farmers to surrender all farms to his party members & his
followers.

My father is One of the most successful malty farmers in our country &
because he did not support Mugabe`s
ideas, Mugabe's supporters invaded his farm & burnt everything in the farm,
killing him & made away with a lot of items in my father's farm & killed
him.

Before his death, my father had deposited with FINANCE HOUSE the sum of

*(USD $6.5 MILLION). SIX MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLAR.
*

After the death of my father, I decided to move to Republic of GHANA where i
re-located under political asylum as a refugee to seek for foreign partner
overseas that will assist me to move this money out of THE FINANCIAL HOUSE
to your country as i have made up my mind to invest & live in your country.



As an asylum seeker i am not allowed to operate any Bank Account within
Accra Ghana. I have agreed to offer you 7% of the total sum for your
assistance as soon as the money gets into your account while 5% will be
mapped out for any expenses that may be incurred in the course of this
transaction both local & international.

I want truth & honest to be our watch word in this transaction & please
treat this transaction with strictly confidential for the successful outcome
of it. All I want you to do is to furnish me with your personal mobile
number & also your private e-mail address for easy & urgent communication.



Note that this transaction is 100% Risk free & absolutely confidential.

Thanks & God bless you.



Sincerely Yours,

Miss Najya Fatima Muwafaq

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