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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:
  • "keep this confidential" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this 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.
  • smbu100@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: "Shula Mbule" <smbu100@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 13:11:28 +0100
Subject: Letter From Shula


Dear ,Good Morning , how are you ? please i want to discuss important something with you confidential .First to introduce my self to you before any thing ,
I am from Angola country and my name is Shula Mbule
My Daddy is Late Brigadier Mbule ,he was one of the senior officers in Angola.i will later tell you more about my Daddy.
I have many reason very important i want us to be in good relationship to share ideas together, Please i would like us to know each other very well before transacting any business that involves money.
Please i don,t know if it will be possible for you to visit me here in Africa and you know me very well so that both of us will travel to meet the Finance company in the country where my father deposited his money for his future investments outside Africa .
My father save big amount of money in the Finance company outside Africa worth's $19.700.000.00 ( Nintheen million seven hundred thousand united state dollars )
I want you to be honest to me in the presence of GOD , i want this money to be transfer for investments in your country for any good business you know that can make more profits , and also you will help me to come over there and live .
I will be happy if my honest truth to you shall be a future glory relationship .
The reason i want us to meet face to face is to asured you every truth of my words, by to prove you all the original documents of the deposit that cover this money so that you will trust and believe me ,then we discuss how much will be your share from this money for helping me .but in my honest mind i propose to give you 25% of this money after the money secured to your accounts .
But if you don,t have time to come now , i can still send the documents and the contacts to you so that you will contact the Finance Company and verify from them first .
Please keep this confidential till am there with you.
Reply me back with your detail contacts so that i will call you on phone and discuss more.
Every communications will be to this my privates email address ( smbu100@yahoo.fr )
I am waiting for your reply .
May GOD bless you .
From Shula

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