419 scam: "Mustafa Abutrakhi"<mailmeprivate24@mail.mn> Bussiness Offer

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "huge sum of money" (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)
- "confidentiality of this transaction" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
- "my direct telephone number" (a "direct line" in a scam usually means an untraceable mobile phone number used by a scammer in an internet cafe, a redirection service number that forwards to a mobile or a free voicemailbox in a different country.)
- "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
- "cotonou" (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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +22966999745 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
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.
- mustafabutrakhi01@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mustafa Abutrakhi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mustafabutrakhi@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:56:42 +0100
Subject: Bussiness Offer

Dear Sir,

I wish to introduce myself to you, I am Mr Mustaphaa Abutrakhi, I am
a Libyan Citizen and works as one of the Momoh Ghadafis Military
machinery using in recent fighting between the rebels and the
Pro-Ghadafis Government, which my country's members are sicking for
the collapse of the Ghadafis regime.

During the cause of this Meham caused by the dictator Ghadafi, I and
my partner was ask by Ghadafi to secure a huge sum of money valued at
$40.5million ( Forthy million five hundred thousand dollars), money
got from the sells of oil allocation in my country to one of his
foriegh accounts in Europe for the purchase of weapons for the killing
of my people the more but instead of that,we diverted the funds to a
security firm in Madrid Spain with the help of a united Nations(UN)
DIPLOMAT. Based on this, that is the reason i contacted you to help
me go to Madrid and meet with the diplomat in Spain and claim the
funds on my behalf for investment in your county.

Note that the transaction is 100% risk free and secured that the
secret and confidentiality of this transaction depends on our success.
Call me with my direct telephone number as soon as you receive this
message for more details on +229-669-997-45. for more information. and
reply to the e-mail address ;mustafabutrakhi01@hotmail.co.uk
Mean-while, i am in a refugee or asylum camp in Cotonou Benin
Republic, pending when the transaction will be completed by my
beneficiary.

Awaiting to hear from you soon.

Thanks,
Mustafa Abutrakhi.

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