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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "await your urgent response" (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.
  • kabba_gorom@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Engr:Kabba Gorom" <gorom_kabba@rediffmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kabba_gorom@myway.com
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 12.49.22 +0200
Subject: Urgent Message

Dear sir/madam
I am the Chairman of the Contract Advisory Committee (CAC) of the Burkina Ministry of Works and Housing (BMWH). I am seeking your assistance to enable me transfer the sum of US$6,525,000.00 (Six Million, Five Hundred and Twenty Five Thousand United States Dollars) into your private/company
account.The fund came about as a result of a contract awarded and executed on behalf of the Burkina Ministry of Works and Housing. The contract was supposed to be
awarded to two foreign contractors to the tune of US$45,000,000.00 (Fourty Five Million United States Dollars). But in the course of negotiation, the contract was awarded
to a Bulgarian contractor at the cost of US$28,000,000.00 (Twenty Eight Million, United States Dollars) to my benefit unknown to the contractor.
This contract has been satisfactorily executed and inspected as the Bulgarian firm is presently securing payment from the Ministry, where I am the Supervisory Director in-charge
of all foreign contract payment approval. As a civil servant still in active government service, I am not allowed by law to operate an account outside the shores of Burkina Faso.
Hence this message to you, seeks your assistance so as to enable me present your private/company account details as a beneficiary of contractual claims along side that of the
Bulgarian contractor, to enable me move the difference of US$6,525,000.00 (Six Million, Five Hundred and Twenty Five Thousand United StatesDollars) into your provided
account.
On actualisation, the fund will be disbursed as stated below:
1. Twenty percent of the fund will be for you as beneficiary .
2. Five percent for reimbursement to both parties for incidental expenses that may be incurred during the course of the transaction.
3. Seventy Five percent of the fund will be for me which I intend to invest in your country with you as my partner. All logistics are in place and all modalities worked out for
a smooth actualisation of the transaction within the next few working days of commencement. please include your private telephone & fax numbers,full names and address
of residence .
Thanks in anticipation as i await your urgent response.
Sincerely,
Engr.Kabba Gorom
Email:kabba_gorom@myway.com

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