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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 about the following email:

• 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.
  • moh_ous2@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Ousman Mohammad." <moh_ous5@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: moh_ous2@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:21:36 +0200
Subject: From Mr.Ousman Mohammad.

Dear Friend,

Good day. I decided to contact you after I went through my father’s file. Hence I confide in you. I sincerely seek your assistance.

My name is Mr.Ousman Mohammad,I am 22 years old who his entire family was wiped out, as a result of Egyptian Airlines that crashed into the Red Sea in cairo and I am the only son. Before the accident, my Father deposited the sum of US$15,000,000 (Fifteen Million United States dollars) in a in my name.

I flyed to London after the death of my parents with all the documents that covers the fund and I seek for refuge, as an asylum seeker,As an asylum seeker, it is not in my legal capacity to put up claims to this fund. This is why I need your assistance as my late father’s foreign partner to put up claims to this fund.I will forward to you all the documents that cover this fund, but you will need to provide an account where the fund can be transferred.

If interested and capable to assist me in this transaction, please get back to me immediately.You are to send me your telephone and fax number.

I look forward to a favorable response from you through my email or telephone contacts below.

Tell:00447031907218
E-mail:(moh_ous2@yahoo.com)

Best regards,
Mr.Ousman Mohammad.

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