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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:
  • "maryam abacha" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "sani abacha" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • omarabacha1@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • mrsmaryamabach12006@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Maryam Abacha" <maryam_abacha12@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsmaryamabach12006@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 13:42:14 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend,

CONFIDENTIAL/URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL.

Dear Friend,

I am delighted to write this letter to you hoping that you will understand
my predicament and answer back without hesitation. I am Dr Maryam Abacha the
wife of the late Nigerian head of State General Sani Abacha.

I got your contact on the internet as I was making contact for a honest
foreigner who will help save my life and my children, hence our country has
been frustrating us since the death of my husband. I am in possession of
$25 000.000 (TWENTY FIVE MILLION U.S DOLLARS ONLY) which I want to invest in
your country. For your clarification with understanding,this money in a box
which my husband deposited in the finance and security company dis-guise as
a family treasure since 11th of febuary 1998, is not an ill gotten wealth
rather, it was generated from my organisation FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAM
(F.S.P). I will enlighten you more of this organisation if you indicate a
helping interest to secure this money on my behalf.

On your acceptance to render this assistance to me,I will instruct the
finance company to effect a change of ownership of this fund in your name as
the bona-fide owner to enable you claim the fund from the security and
finance company,also I will disclose to you the country and the name of the
finance and security company where this money is being deposited.

What I demand from you now is to arrange for a visit to the finance company
where this money is being deposited and claim it as the bona-fide owner.It
is very ideal you forward to me your private telephone and fax numbers to
enable me send all relevant documents pertaining the deposit of this fund
for your clarification and more understanding.

Bear in mind that this transaction demands absolute confidentiality because
properties and bank accounts both local and international bearing the
Abacha's family name, are being ordered to be confiscated by the newly
elected civilian President of Nigeria (President Olusegun Obasanjo) hence I
will not want to be exposed.

Let me refer you to the front page of This Day Newspapers of 10th March
2001. You can check it through their website:www.thisdayonline.com , click
on rchives,8th.june,2001) The present government in Nigeria had frozen and
seized all my bank accounts both here in Nigeria and abroad. Thus l shall
expect you to contact me urgently to enable us discuss in detail aboutthis
transaction For your knowledge, 25% of this fund $25 000.000 (TWENTY FIVE
MILLION U.S DOLLARS) will be given to you if you assist me to secure this
fund and another 5% has been set aside for all the expenses you might incur
during the process of securing this fund.Example: TELEPHONE BILLS, HOTEL
BILLS,FLIGHT BILLS and other mislenous expenses.

When you must have taken the agreed percentage, you will use part of the
balance to buy a living house for my family there in your country, where we
shall live in the future and the remaining part will be kept for investment
package also in your country which will be under your supervision.
Contact me through my son (OMAR ABACHA) who recently escaped from Nigeria to
Johannesboug South Africa where he is now staying as a refuge on his email
address omarabacha1@yahoo.co.uk to avoid us losing this money, since it is
the only remaining fund for the survival of my family.
Thanks for your anticipated co-operation.

Yours sincerely,
MRS.MARYAM ABACHA
Please for security reasons reply to my alternative email address:
mrsmaryamabach12006@yahoo.co.uk



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