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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:

• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • ahmedbin@katamail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "ahmed maktoum" <maktoum9@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 03:53:52 +0000
Subject: FROM MR.AHEMD BIN MAKTOUM

FROM MR.AHEMD BIN MAKTOUM
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARMENT.
EMIRIATE BANK OF U.A.E.
CONFIDENTIAL PLEASE.

COMPLIMENT OF THEY DAY MY GOOD FRIEND.

Got to know of you in search for a reputable and reliable person to assist
me in an urgent need requiring utmost trust and confidentiality, while
browsing the internet after I and my colleagues have decided on what to do
as regards the matter.

I am MR AHEMD BIN MAKTOUM, the manager Bills and Exchange under foreign
remittance department of Emirate Bank of Dubai U.A.E International. I am
writing this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out
this business opportunity in my department.

We discovered an abandoned sum of US20.5M that belong to one of our foreign
customer MR. WILLIAM KNUDSON, 53,who died in Alaska air flight 261 in they
year 31st Jan 2000, also he helped found Inland Business Systems,a
business machines company, in 1977. Traveling with his partner,Bradley Long,
39, of Sacramento, California. The two were returning home after visiting
the bed and breakfast inn they owned in Puerto Vallarta while his wife and
her daughter died in auto car accident.

Confirm this story at the web site
below:

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

Do send your private telephone and fax number including the full details of
the account to be used for the deposit. I will fly down to your once you
confirm to me that the sum of $20.5m is in your bank account, but before
then we have to sign a binding agreement to bind us together so that you can
receive this money into a foreign account or any account of your choice
where the fund will be safe and I will fly to your country for withdrawal
and sharing investments.

To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your
interest by a return response of your full bank account information’s and
details.

My warm regards,
MR AHEMD BIN MAKTOUM
EMIRATES BANKS INT.DUBAI UAE

Please if you have interest to followup reply me through this address
email::ahmedbin@katamail.com









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