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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:
  • "i will like you to " (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.
  • kumbarbintou1@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "KUMBAR" <kumbar_bintou@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kumbarbintou1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:31:44 +0200
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED

Dear
Greetings to you, i hope this mail finds you well & healthy and i hope we can established a relationship since we are meeting for the first time,i have gone through a profile that speaks good of you and it interests me to contact you for an assistance to help me transfer the Sum of us$3.7 Million USA dollars my father deposited in a bank here in senegal before he was assasinated.i like honesty,trust,love,truth,caring,& respect,i have all this qulities in me and i believe you have all this qualities too, that is why i decided to contact you for this transaction,i will like you to contact me through my private mail box kumbarbintou1@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:kumbarbintou1@yahoo.co.uk>
so that we can know ourselves better.
Thanks and hoping to hear from you soonest.
MISS KUMBAR

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