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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.
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • zainab_1abdul@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: zainab abdulkarim <abdul_6zai@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <zainab_1abdul@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:22:56 -0400
Subject: Hello,



Hello, I am Zainab Abdulkarim 17yrs old girl, from Ivory Coast. I am an Orphan Child being that I lost my parents a couple of months ago. My father was a serving director of the Cocoa exporting board until his death. He was assassinated last january by the rebels following the political uprising.Before his death he had a foreign account here in Ivory Coast up to the sum of US$10.3m which he told the SECURITY COMPANY was for the importation of cocoa processing machine. I want you to do me a favour to receive this box to a safe place in your country or any safer place as the beneficiary to my late father.I have plans to do investment in your country, like real estate and industrial production.This is my reason for writing to you i will offer you 30% of the total money Please if you are willing to assist me,Please kindly mail me back on identification of your interest through my private email account(zainab_1abdul@yahoo.fr)indicate your interest in replying soonest. Thanks and best regards.Zainab Abdulkarim.
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