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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.
  • dsource2007@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: KEN NNA AND IBRAHIM DANKWAMBA NNA_DANKWAMBA <dsource2005@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:02:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: ENGUIRIES


My proposal

Sir,

My name is Mr. Ken Nna, Head of service and special Assistant to president Alhaji Umar yar-Adua of Nigeria.

My self and the Accountant general of the federation of Nigeria, Alhaji Ibrahim Dankwamba we have a deal to make from Excess crude oil account with a commercial Bank in Nigeria. Please can you help us to provide for us a foreign bank account to lodge in this huge sum at hand. The Total sum is $21 million(Twenty one United States Dollars)we want to divert this funds met for Eleme petro-chemicals company port Harcourt owned by the Federal Government.
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo gave the approval before living office on May 29, 2007.

Feel free to contact me if you wish to help for more details. Sharing among us is 60% by 40%.

Please send to me your telephone fax, and bank Account.Reply to our private email address {dsource2007@yahoo.com}

Thanks.

Ken. Nna.


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