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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned 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.
  • mariam.musa1@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: Mariam Musa <mariam.musa1@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mariammusa5050@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:45:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From: Miss Mariam Musa


From: Miss Mariam Musa
E-mail : mariam.musa1@yahoo.com
Abidjan, Cote d'ivoire
Assalamu Alaikum (May peace by upon you

I am Miss Mariam Musa the only daughter of late
Alhaji Mohd Musa . My father and mother were very
wealthy farmers and cocoa merchant when they were both
alive

After the death of my father,long ago, my mother was
controling his business untill she was poisoned by her
business associates which she surffered and died .
Before the death of my mother on October 2006 in a
private hospital here in Abidjan where she was
admitted, she secretly called me on her bed side and
disclosed to me about the sum of four million five
hundred US dollars thousand . USD ($4.5million ) she
left in suspense account in one of the bank here in
Abidjan , it was the money she intended to transfer
oversea for investment before she was strucked down by
the cancer. She also instructed me that I should seek
for a foreign partner in any country of my choice who
will assist me transfer this money in oversea account
where the money will be save and invested wisely.
Because of the current political problem here in Ivory
Coast I decided to transfer the money to abroad where
it will be save and invested. therefore, I am crying
and seeking for your kind assistance in the following
ways:

(1) To provide a safe bank account into where the
money will be transferred for investment .
(2) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am a
girl of 19 years old .
(3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your
country to further my education and to secure a
resident permit for me in your country.

As soon as I receive your urgent reply indicating your
interest to assist me to successfuly transfer the
money into your yet nominated account , please try and send mails on my private mail box for confidential reasons email address: mariam.musa1@yahoo.com
mariam.musa1@yahoo.com
Yours lovely,
Miss Mariam Musa.






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