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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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Fraud email example:

From: "aburo udua" <aburo_udua007@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: aburo_udua@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:33:54 +0000
Subject: FROM MR. ABURO UDUA.

FROM MR. ABURO UDUA.

Attention please!

I got your contact over the internet as a trustworthy and reliable
person.please pay attention and
understand my reason of contacting you today through this email. My name is
MR.ABURO UDUA bill and exchange manager,foreign remittance dept B.O.A Bank
Of Africa here in Burkina faso .
I am the account officier to a foreign customer,Late Mr. Morris Thompson ,an
American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska
Airlines Flight 261, which crashed on January 31 2000. You may read more
about the crash on visiting this C.N.N News internet website:
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

I desprately need your assistance to secure and move huge sums of money left
behind by our late customer which amount US$15.5million dollars, I will pay
you 30% of the total sum for your coperation in this matter.I will give you
more details,on your positive response, also include in your reply and
acknowledgement of this mail.

Yours faithfully,
MR.ABURO UDUA

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