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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:
  • "million 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)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• 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.
  • alhajiasaridokubo003@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Asari Dokubo <asarhgvbcsszza@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <alhajiasari@excite.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 15:24:19 +0100
Subject: CONCERNED YOU ONLY



My name is Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo the leader of the NIGER DELTA VOLUNTEER FORCE (NDVF). One of the leaders of Ijaw
Militant group (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), I wish to inform you that am very happy to offer you this assistance.

I have $200 million USD (Two Hundred Million Dollars) deposited in a financial Institution in abroad, I realized these funds through the $1.5 billion (One Billion Five Hundred Million Dollars) in compensation we got from united state oil companies Royal Dutch Shell, when my group held some of their citizens hostage early before my arrest in 2005 by the past administration of President Olusengu Obasanjo The immediate past president of the federal Government of Nigeria. Please check my Websites for your detail understanding:

http://www.alhajimujahiddokubo-asari.com/
http://www.akumafiete.org/

I need a God fearing person who is trustworthy and who can help to claim the fund
And lodge in a safe account for the future of my family. If you can assist me, I am willing to reward you with some certain percentage from the total sum. Please send your name, your address, private Telephone and Fax number without any delay to enable me contact you and give you the detail of the entire process. Reach me only on my private and direct email address: alhajiasaridokubo003@hotmail.com

Yours Faithfully,

Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo

Email: alhajiasari@akumafiete.org
Email: dokubo@alhajimujahiddokubo-asari.com
http://www.alhajimujahiddokubo-asari.com/
http://www.akumafiete.org

Please do not contact me on those email address because they are not confidential as I am not the only one accessing the email boxes? Reach me only on my direct and confidential email address below:
Email: alhajiasaridokubo003@hotmail.com
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