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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)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "foreign remittance manager" (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.
  
• 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.
  • yaroazzem@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: AZZEM YARO. <yaroazzem@zwallet.com>
Reply-To: yaroazzem@netscape.net
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:05:39 +0100
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF AZZEM.


FROM THE DESK OF AZZEM YARO.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
BANK OF AFRICA(BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
WEST AFRICA

Dear friend,

This message might meet you in utmost surprise however,it's just my urgent
need for a foreign partner that made me contact you for this transaction.
I am a banker by profession from ouagadougou-Burkina faso in west Africa and currently holding the post of Foreign Remittance Manager in our bank,Bank of Africa (BOA)Burkina Faso office .

I have the opportunity of transfering the left over funds $8.6 million of
one of my bank deceased client who died in the sharter plane which crashed on mount kenyan in the kenyan city of sumburu on 21st july,2003 to any foreign account .

You can confirm the genuiness of the deceased death by clicking on this
website :http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
Hence,i am inviting you for a business deal where this money can be shared
between us in the ratio 60/40 if you agree to my business proposal.

Eagerly waiting for your response.

yaroazzem@netscape.net

MR AZZEM YARO

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