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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:
  • "million 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)
  • "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 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.
  • abraham.nuru@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: abraham n <abraham.n0025@msn.com>
Reply-To: <abraham.nuru@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:46:40 +0000
Subject: Contact For More Information.



From: Mr. Abraham Nuru

Country: Burkina Faso
Occupation: Professional Banker
Position: Foreign Remittance Director

Hello Dear, How are you doing? Hope you are alright.

Please treat this message strictly confidential and do not be surprise over this unexpected and sudden communication to you. I got your contact from a reliable international directory where I decided to choose you as to assist me pull into your account the sum of Fourteen Million United States Dollars ($14.000,000.00) from our bank.

The beneficiary of this account died (May his soul rest in peace) with his family 6 years ago in a Kenya Plane Crash 2003, and no body were officially intestated to stand for the claim as the next of kin.

Therefore, I need your attention and trust so we can make a two man deal in order to move this fund to your account and once the fund is transferred into your account, every chapter of this deal will be sealed. Before we can achieve this successfully, you should apply to our bank as the business partner/extended relative to the deceased. Nevertheless, I will use my good office to ensure that my bank granted urgent approval for the release of this fund to you immediately.

Hence the fund is released; I will resign quickly to join you over there in your country for disbursement of the fund. I will tell you what will be your share on your response to this message and we have to start the process immediately to avoid our bank to send the fund to central bank of Burkina Faso as an unknown beneficiary and unclaimed fund.

I am waiting for your response for more details of the transaction through my private email address; abraham.nuru@gmail.com

Yours truly.
Mr Abraham Nuru.

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