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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:

• This email message is a "dying merchant" scam.
• 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.
  • kadirimusa2001@yahoo.com.tw
  • kadirimusa2001@yahoo.com.tw

Fraud email example:

From: KADIRI MUSA <kadirimusa2005@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 03:32:13 +0200
Subject: Please Help me!!!!!( I need your urgent response)

Please for security reason, reply me via my most confidential email
address: kadirimusa2001@yahoo.com.tw so that I can tell you more about
the fund.

Dear Friend,
My name is KADIRI MUSA a merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E. I have been
diagnosed with Esophageal cancer It has defiled all forms of medical treatment
, and right now I have only about a few months to live,
according to medical experts.

I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared
for anyone (not even myself) but my business. Though I am very rich,
I was never generous,I was always hostile to people and only focused
on my business as that was the only thing I cared for. But now I regret
all this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting
to have or make all the money in the world.

I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world I
would live my life a different way from how I have lived it.
Now that God has called me, I have willed and given most of my property and
assets to my immediate and extended family members as well as a few
close friends.

I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul so,I have decided to
give also to charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on
earth. So far, I have distributed money to some charity organizations
in the U.A.E, Algeria and Malaysia.

Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this myself
anymore. I once asked members of my family to close one of
my accounts and distribute the money which I have there to charity organization
in Bulgaria and Pakistan, they refused and kept the money to
themselves. Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not
to be contended with what I have left for
them. The last of my money which no one knows of is the huge cash
deposit of (Twenty million five
hundred thousand u.s dollars) that I have with a finance/Security
Company abroad.I will want you to help me
collect this consignment and dispatched it to charity organizations.

I have set aside 15% for you,then 5% for any expenses incured.

God be with you.

KADIRI MUSA

Please for security reason, reply me via my most confidential email
address: kadirimusa2001@yahoo.com.tw so that I can tell you more about the
fund.

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