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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)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • maly_mudina001@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DR. MALY MUDINA" <maly_mudin5@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <maly_mudina001@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:27:24 +0100
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL REPLY.



FROM, THE DESK OF MR.MALY MUDINA,EXCHANGE MANAGER,
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT(BOA). BANK OF AFRICA,OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.
WEST AFRICAN.
Dear Friend,

How are you doing with your family? Hope fine, Please pay attention and understand my reason of contacting you today through this email, My name is Mr. Maly Mudina, Exchange Manager Bank Of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso. In my department, during the Auditing of the year 2006, I discovered an abounded sum of $22.300.000.00 USD that belongs to one of our Late custmer, an American prominent man who unfortunately lost his life and entire family in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which crashed on January 31st 2000. You may read more about the crash on visiting this C.N.N News internet website below.

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

I desperately need your assistance to secure and move this huge sums of money left behind by my late client to the tune of $22.300.000.00, (Twenty Two million Three hundred thousand Dollars) out from Bank Of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina Faso to your own account, he executed contract through Department of Work and Housing here in Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso and the mentioned money above is his money left in our bank before his death. Meanwhile, for your smoothness of this transaction, I will pay you 30% of the total sum for your co-operation in this matter. If you know that you are interested and capable to handle this business transaction, come up with the information's showed below:- 1. Your Full Name: 2. Your Contact Cell/ Phone Number and fax: 3. Your Age: 4. Your Sex: 5. Your Occupations: 6. Your Country and City: 7. Your Account information where you will like the fund to be transfered.

As soon as possible all these information's is submitted to me, I will immediately draft an application form with all your information's and submit to the bank on your behalf, so that the bank management will contact you and will proceed with the transaction with the bank management BOA bank for the transferring of this fund into your account.

Please do contact me through my private e-mail: maly_mudina001@yahoo.com
Yours Faithfully,Mr.Maly Mudina.
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