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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a "dying widow" 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.
  • bb020146@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • bambina_b0@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Bambina Banjo" <bb020146@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: bambina_b0@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:08:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PLEASE GET BACK TO ME AFTER READING THIS MAIL


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: bb020146@yahoo.ca



- Dear Good Friend,I contact you after my praying and fasting to sow this seed of fait in your care,l know too well that we did not know each other before but please consider this proposal on its content.I need not dwell on how I came by your contact information because there are many such possibilities these days.I will like to introduce myself as Mrs.ambina Banjo a widow to Late Dr.Caine Banjo,I have been recently been daigonosed of Cancer of the Pelvics.I am writing from my sick bed.There is this fund US$4.5 Milliom Four Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars cash my late husband deposited with a bank.With my health condition and I have no child,I am looking for a credible person to whom I will pass the right of next of kin.This person will apply to the bank and request for the transfer of this fund to a foreign account.This is on the condition that you will take 10% of the fund for yourself,incliuding all the expences you made during the cause of transfering the money to any account that you will be proving to the bank,While you will use the remaining ballance for the less previlege people in the society.This is in fullfillment of the last request of my husband,That a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less previleged.If this condition is acceptable to you,You should contact me immediately with your Complete contact informations so that I will put you in contact with the bank directly for the transfer of the money to any account that you will provide to them,I can't predict what will be my fate by the time you will recieve the fund,But you should please ensure that the fund is used as l have described above.email me with thisemail(bambina_b0@yahoo.fr) Waiting urgently to receive your response.Yours Sincerely.Mrs. Bambina Banjo.

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