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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:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • char_obens02@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • borahc@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?charles=20obenson?= <char_obens02@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: borahc@myway.com
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 01:43:31 +0530 (IST)
Subject: urgent information


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: char_obens02@yahoo.co.in

Dear Sir,


We want to transfer to overseas (+ACQ- €55.000.000.00 pounds) Fifty five million pounds only) from a Bank in Europe, I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important business

trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me

down either now or in future.


I am Dr. Charles obenson Auditor General of a bank in Europe, during the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1999 and since 2004 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a +AFs-heir+AF0- hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is Katsunosuki Yuifum Bussho is a Japanese citizen who perished with other 147 passengers in EGYPTIAN Boeing 737 PLANE CRASH into the red sea. Visit for further detail:{http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3365721.stm}


An Inheritance like this nature, what will make it crime is if you

did not follow the Rules, Laws/Procedures of an INTERNATIONAL

INHERITANCE and as such I have made a master plan on how this

business should be followed. If you are serious and capable to do

this business with me, and you know that you will never, never ever betray me now or in the future let me know so that I will give you the full transaction details, already a perfect arrangement is in place, planed and marshaled out for a smooth sound successful transaction that both parties will be joyful and proud of at the end.


If you are truly serious like I said send me first the follows;

{1} Your correct bank account information where you

will like the fund to be transferred to.

(2.) Your full Name and Address.

(3.) Your private phone and fax numbers both home and

office for easy communication.

{4} Your brief life biography.


I look forward to your earliest reply through my private

email... borahc@myway.com


Yours sincerely,

Dr. Charles obenson.



- charles obenson

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