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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • usman_bello001@gawab.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: usman bello <usman_078@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <usman_bello001@gawab.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:08:36 +0000
Subject: Eagerly waiting for your response



FROM THE DESK OF MR.USMAN BELLOAUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER BANQUE ATLANTIQUE-OUAGADOUGOUBURKINA FASO EMAIL usman_bello001@gawab.com Dear Friend, This message might meet you in utmost surprise however, it’s just my urgent need for a foreign partner that is making me contact you for this transaction. I am a banker by profession from Ouagadougou-Burkina Faso in west Africa and currently holding the post of Auditing Manager in our here bank Burkina Faso office . I have the opportunity of transferring the left over funds $20.6 million of one of my bank deceased client who died in the chartered plane which crashed on mount Kenyan in the Kenyan city of sumburu on 21st july,2003 to any foreign account . You can confirm the genuine of the deceased death by clicking on this website:http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.htmlHence, I am inviting you for a business deal where this money can be shared between us in the ratio 70\30 if you agree to my business proposal. Eagerly waiting for your response Kinds regards,Mr usman bello
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