419 scam: =?UTF-8?B?IkphY29iIEFtaW4i?= <naziharabah77@terra.com.pe> (no subject)

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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 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.
- jacobamain@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?UTF-8?B?IkphY29iIEFtaW4i?= <naziharabah77@terra.com.pe>
Date:
Subject:

Dear Chosen one,

I know this message m= ay come to you as a surprise.

However,= it is my urgent need for a foreign= partner that made me to contact you&nbs= p;through this medium. My name is Mr,Jacob&nb= sp;Amin , I am the manager of auditing&n= bsp;section in one of the prime bank her= e in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso, West Africa.&n= bsp;I have a business proposal in the tu= ne of (USD $21,000.000.00) Twenty one million= US Dollars only. This is an abandoned&n= bsp;fund that belongs to a deceased customer&= nbsp;of my bank that made fix deposit fo= r (7 calendar years and upon maturity we= sent a routine notification to his forw= arding address but got no reply. After s= ome months, we sent reminder and finally = ;we discovered that he passed away after = ;brief illness in his country. We tried = everything humanly possible to locate his rel= atives but all efforts failed. The deposit&nb= sp;is still intact with our bank and the= interest is being paid into the princip= al sum at the end of each year.
I&nbs= p;discovered all the related documents of the= deposit while I was arranging old files= for annual remark but I kept it se= cret not until now because the bank agre= e recently to confiscate the fund if no&= nbsp;body contact the bank as the next o= f kin for the claim hence my secret = ;contact with you. To be honest with you= , the transaction is totally genuine and = ;100% risk-free but the secret must remain&nb= sp;between me and you. I have been worki= ng with this bank for years and I k= now all their secret and systems of oper= ation, and I have carefully mapped-out my&nbs= p;perfect strategies to carry out the transac= tion successfully. We shall share in ratio&nb= sp;of 40% for you and 60% for me, s= hould you be interested Kindly send your = ;response to (jacobamain@yahoo.com)

Please keep = this proposal as a top secret between bo= th of us, and delete it immediately in&n= bsp;your email box if you are not intere= sted.
Thanks and regards
MrJacob Amin.

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