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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • drabseikibo2@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Tim Seikibo" <seikibo1@msn.com>
Reply-To: drabseikibo2@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:17:54 +0000
Subject: YOUR URGENT REPLY NEEDED,

Dear Friend,
 
Beatifulday to you, my name is Dr.A.B.Seikibo and i am the minister of transport in my country.
And please this mail is for your eyes only due to the magnitude and high profile of my position as a public servant.
 
Absolute secrecy must be maintaned, Please listen, My country is boosting and widening shipping frontiers in the shipping world and to achive this goal, my government have made agreement with a malaysian maritime business group for $500,000,000 us dollars to build vessels for my indigenons firms.
 
 IVORY MARIN LTD, FYMAK MARIN LTD,  DOIL SERVICE,  ALBAIN VENTURS LTD AND BRADAM NIG LTD AND SKANGA ENERGY AND MARIN LTD.
 
As the transport minister and the one that brokered these huge deal the two parties that is the five (5) companies and the malaysian group have set aside 5% of the fund for me, to show appreciation for the contract approval which comes to $25,000,000 us dollars.
 
And this sum has been transfered and deposited with a financial and security company in europe for for my collection.But as a public servant i want to avoid emmbarassment and public exposure, therefore i need your honest self in going to get this fund and we shall use it for investment in your conutry.i will provide you all the necessary document that is needed.
 
If you are willing and able please do contact me immediately, on my private email: drabseikibo2@yahoo.co.uk for the next step.
 
Best Regards
Dr.A.T.Seikibo

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