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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:
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• 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.
  • mathewwilliam@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "william mathew" <mathewwilliam002@livedoor.com>
Reply-To: mathewwilliam@hotmail.fr
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:52:29 +0100
Subject: FROM: MR MATHEW WILLIAM


*FROM: MR MATHEW WILLIAM
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO. WEST AFRICA

TEL +226 78 122 580 *

*ATTN. PLEASE

This message might meet you in utmost surprise; however, it's just my
urgent
need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction. I am
a banker by profession from Burkina Faso in West Africa and currently holding
the post of Director Auditing and Accounting unit of the bank. I have the
opportunity of transfering the left over funds U.S $17,500,000.00 of one of my
bank clients who died along with his entire family on 31st July 2000 in a plane
crash.

Hence, I am inviting you for a business deal where this money can be shared
between us in the ratio of 50/40 while 10% will be mapped out for expenses. If
you agree to my business proposal. Further details of the transfer will be
forwarded to you as soon as I receive your return mail, have a great day. Make
sure you keep this transaction as your top secret and make it confidential till
we receive the fund into the account that you will provide to the bank.
Don't
disclose it to any body, because the secrecy of this transaction is as well as
the success of it

Contant Address EMAIL
**mathewwilliam@hotmail.fr**WILLIAM*
<http://uk.mc284.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mathewwilliam@hotmail.frWILLIAM>
*William
TEL +226 78 122 580*

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