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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • fayekmumkaila@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Munkaila Fayek" <FAYEK@FSMAIL.NET> (may be fake)
Reply-To: fayekmumkaila@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:56:52 +0200
Subject: PLEASE HELP ME

Attn Please,

I am Munkaila Fayek ,the son of Mohammad Fayek.
My father was a well known gold and diamond dealer
from Darfur in Sudan.

He was gruesomely murdered in cold blood on the 26th
January last year 2006 during bombing of the village
of Rahad Kabolong in the western Sudanese state of
North Darfur with my mother.Before their death,He
informed me that he secretly deposited the sum of
$US8,600,000:00 (Eight million six hundred thousand US
Dollars)with a Finance Firm in the Netherlands. He
gave me all the documents covering the deposited fund
and instructed me to come down here in Belgium with my
younger sister for the retrieval and transfer of the
money to a foreign trustee for a sustainable
investment.

Therefore I am ready to offer you 15% for your
assistance which you will render for me,I am doing
this because I know I am going to take your precious
time in doing this transaction and I want you to
please do understand me I solicit for your assistance
to claim the fund and as well to transfer the fund
into your private or company account for onward
investment in your country under your control because
at my age I don't have a business idea.


So all we are asking is that for you to stand as my
fathers foreign partner to the Finance Firm to enable
us retrieve the fund out from the Finance Firm.
Kindly reply immediately for more details on the
procedure and all vital documents will be forwarded to
you to ensure a smooth and successfull transaction.

Please kindly forward your reply to my private email
address:fayekmumkaila@gmail.com
Thanks for your anticipated understanding and
co-operation.
Best regards,
Munkaila Fayek

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