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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)
  • "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "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.
  • nathan010khalifa@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: nathan010khalifa@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:10:03 +0800 (CST)
Subject: From Mr Nathan khalifa


Dear Friend,

First of all I want you to give this letter good understanding, if you can
guarantee me from your own side, your trust, honesty, i will be so happy to do this with you, I will appreciate if you can come down and see things for yourself before we proceed and this will make things clearer for us.

I am Mr.Nathan Khalifa an accountant working with a commercial bank here in
Abidjan , Cote d'Ivoire . I dont know how your going to feel about this.
i know that you will be surprised to receive this message since we have not met before,however this is the only way i can contact you at this moment due to the nature of this business deal.am contacting you on this business of
transferring the sum of Six Million United State Dollar (US$6 million)
into a safe foreign account and it must be very confidential.

I wish to inform you that the said amount of money was discovered during
our last audit work in the month of january 2008.This money belongs to one
Mr. Kasoum Bakayoko, a very rich farmer who died five years ago with Kenya
airlines plane crash in mount Kenya monday July 2003 died with his family.

since then no one has come for it,that is why i solicit your urgent assistance for this so that we can work together to get this fund transfer to your account,as the next of kin to Mr.Kasoum Bakayoko,that is why i demanded for your trust and honesty.

so your urgent assistance is needed for this,i will forward to you the legal information of the fund and give you information on how to contact the bank.

You will be given a negotiable percentage upon your acceptance to assist me
and you will also be updated with all procedures to help affect the
transfer.

Looking forward to hear from you soon.

Best regards.

Mr.Nathan Khalifa

NB :Please reply to nathan010khalifa@yahoo.com




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