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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)
  • "the consignment" (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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • zainab_02abdulkarim@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "zainab_1abdul Gazeta.pl" <zainab_1abdul@gazeta.pl>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 20:12:18 +0000
Subject: Hello,


*Hello,

I am (Zainab Abdulkarim) from Darfur Sudan.It is my pleasure to contact you
for a business venture which I intend to establish in your country.Though I
have not met with you before but considering the recent political
instabilities in my country - Sudan, I believe one has to risk confiding
success in people sometimes in life.

There is this huge amount of Twelve million U.S dollars ($12,000,000.00)
which my late Father deposited in ivory coast,awaiting claim before he was
assassinated by unknown persons during this present war in our province of
Dafur in Sudan.

My main purpose of sending you this E-mail is because of the way I found you
and perhaps trustworthy to give you this priority of shipping this
consignment to any address that you think is very secure and safe in your
country.

There is need for urgent action because the consignment is accruing charges
per day as demurrage to the Finance Firm for safekeeping couple with the
resent attempt of coup plot last july that has distracted attention of the
government and the security delegates .Please i will like you to contact the
Finance Firm, indicating to the Finance Firm that you are authorize by me,to
call as the foreign business Associate/co-beneficiary of my late father to
make inquires on how the consignment could be shipped to your destination. I
thank you immensely for your co-operation and understanding.Meanwhile this
is my private email
account(**zainab_02abdulkarim@yahoo.com*<zainab_02abdulkarim@yahoo.com>
*)

Please, read more on the news. **www.savedarfur.org*<http://www.savedarfur.org/>
*

Best Regard,
Zainab Abdulkarim. *

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