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

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Ruth Daku" <rchrd_kk@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: moriss_ib@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:11:07 -0800
Subject: RE:i hopr to hear from you

Hello my dear,

Compliment of the day, I'm Mrs.ruth Daku from sierra-Leone. I picked interest on you after glancing
through your short profile, I deemed it necessary to disclose this important issue I believe one thing in me that God will always make a way for the needy and helpless one. I would like you to do me this favour, save my soul before I die. My husband Mr.Williams Daku(late) who was killed by
the rebels in 2003, during the political uprising here in Cote d'Ivoire, deposited some money in a bank (US$10.5Million) in a suspense fixed account. My late husband was an Agro- Merchant, he did export to many countries before his untimely death. Since I lost my husband, I've contacted the bank for the release of the money, the Bank Manger precisely told that my late husband made the deposit in a suspense fixed account with a clause attached to it for onward transfer into a foreign account, that I'll not have access to the money now until it's transferred first.
On this note, I contacted you to please come in as my late husband's foreign business partner to enable the bank transfer the money in your foreign account The bank has given me requirements I should forward to them:

1. Your full name, contact postal address
2. Your phone and fax numbers.
This is a matter of trust, now I confide in you since

I don't know anybody abroad, therefore, please promise me that you'll not sit on this money when it gets into your account, also, please as I contacted you for this purpose, let's restrict the information from third-party to avoid exposing ourselves to wicked people.

If you agree on this, I'll give you 15% of the total share when transferred, then 5% will be given to you if you made any expense on the cause of the transfer. Waiting to hearing from you, please once I hear from you I'll send you my pictures, also the deposit certificate the bank gave to my late husband.please reply a copy to myson,morris_ib@hotmail.com </cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&a=11d87ddd3d995e78fed950a60aa0f83ae26bb23f5d440e842a4871d81a38926c&mailto=1&to=morris_ib@hotmail.com&msg=29014AE0-1EB0-4D96-AC4A-175CFAA1E53B&start=0&len=3421&src=&type=x>
Thanks,
Mrs. Ruth Daku

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