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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • l.diawarra@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "lassine diawarra" <ssine0_8@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: l.diawarra@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 12:34:55 +0000
Subject: PERSONAL// INVESTMENT PROPOSAL FOR URGENT ATTENTION

From The
Desk Of Lassine Diawarra
BOA Bank (ANNEXE)
EMAIL: l.diawarra@yahoo.fr
Subject:PERSONAL// INVESTMENT PROPOSAL FOR URGENT ATTENTION

ATTENTION: Sir

I am Mr. Lassine Diawarra, Branch Manager of Bank Of Africa (B.O.A). I would
like to know if this proposal will be worth while for your acceptance. I
have a Foreign Customer who is an Investor, Gold Merchant and Federal
Government contractor.

In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer ( DR. GEORGE
BRUMLEY. from KENYA) who died along with his entire family on Monday, July
21, 2003 Posted: 1:00 AM EDT (0500 GMT) in a plane crash, leaving a closing
balance of $15.5m in one of his Private US Dollar Account that is been
managed by me as the Customer's Account Officer.

( Below the web-Site:)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

Base on my security report, these funds can be claimed without any hitches
as no one is aware of the funds and its closing balance except me and the
customer (Now Deceased) therefore, I can

present you as the Next of Kin and we will work out the modalities for the
claiming of the funds in accordance with the law. If you are interested,
Please call me on 00226 7653-7067 to discuss in further details and our
sharing ratio will be 60% for me and 30% for you.while 10% will be for the
naccasery expenciss that might occur along the line.

Awaiting your urgent reply via this email above,please save me the anxiety
of endless waiting.
God bless you.
Thank you,
Mr. Lassine Diawarra

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