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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)
• 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.
  • infobright_k@yahoo.gr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • infobright_k@yahoo.gr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <bright2005@centrum.cz>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:21:27 +0200
Subject: From:Bright/Mary Kamara


From:Bright/Mary Kamara
Dear Sir/Madam
Please Reply with this email address ( infobright_k@yahoo.gr)
May this mail find happiness and peace in your life.
I am Bright and my younger sister called Mary Kamara of the same parents from Sierre-Leone country .we lost our parent and our late father Chief Vincent R. Kamara made a deposit of money with a bank here in a fixed deposit and the amount is USD17M dollars on a bank here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire.
We are presently in Abidjan where the money was been deposited and I have the documents backing up the money at the bank for your claims and our late father told us incase if he died that we should look for someone who has a legitimate bank account abroad to help us claim the money as we are young ones.

We believe you as an advanced person that you will not betray the trust we impose on you at the end of the transfer into your personal bank account.
Please we need you to send to us the followings,
1.your full Name.
2.Your private phone and fax number
3.Your banking information
All this i will submit to the bank for the transfer of the money to your bank account which you are going to send.
Bear in mind that this transaction remains confindential to yourself alone.
Based on this we contacted you for an assistance,So that we can front you as the beneficiary of the deposited money USD$17M to the bank so that you can have contacts with the bank for the bank to make the transfer into the account you are going to nominate.
Please write me immediately after you must have gone through my message fill free and make it urgent. That is the reason why I offered you 15 % of the total money amount, and in case of any other necessary expenses you might incure, I am resolving to give you an addition of 2% during
this transaction.
Please Reply with this email address ( infobright_k@yahoo.gr )
Thanks and remaine bless.
Waiting for your reply.
Yours sincerely.
Bright/Mary Kamara

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