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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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• 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.
  • mohammed_za3@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mohammed mohammed" <mo_mohammed3@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:13:34 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY PLEASE

FROM: MRS AMINA   MOHAMMED

  

  E mail   mohammed_za3@yahoo.com

  

  Dear Sir / MadaM  

  

THE PEACE OF OUR ALMIGTHY ALLAH BE UPON YOU.I SEND THIS LETTER TO YOU AFTER SERIES OF PRAYERS AND I BELIEVE YOU WILL NOT FAIL ME. MY NAME IS MRS AMINA   MOHAMMADE, I AM A GAMBIA NATIONAL AND THE WIFE OF LATE MR ALI MOHAMMADE A STAFF OF GAMBIAN EMBASSY HERE IN SOUTH AFRICA, WHO DIED IN THE YEAR OF 2002 AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS .I WAS MARRIED TO MY HUSBAND FOR 30YRS AND WE WERE MUSLEM BELIEVER LIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA WE HAD ONE CHILD A BOY BEFORE MY HUSBANDS DEATH IN 2002, HE

DEPOSITED US$11.5 MILLION (ELEVEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS). IN ONE OF THE BANKS HERE IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THIS MONEY WAS KEPT FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAINTAINING AND TAKING CARE OF THE WELFARE OF OUR ONLY SON WHO IS NOW 25 YEARS OLD.  

  

  

  

  

  

I MISSED MY HUSBAND SO MUCH AND THE FACT TO HIS DEATH DESTABILISED ME CAUSING ME STROKE AND HEART FAILURE.VERY RECENTLY MY DOCTOR INFORMED ME THAT I HAVE CANCER AND THAT I MIGTH NOT LIVE UP TO 90 DAYS. I AM DEEPLY WORRIED BY MY FALLING HEALTH SITUATION BUT I HAVE THE BELIEVE THAT ALMIGHTY THY ALLAH HAS A PURPOSE FOR ALLOWING MY PREDICAMENT.I BELIEVE THAT IN EVERY SITUATION WESHOULD PRAISE ALLAH. HE IS MY STRENGHT AND I AM

HAPPY HE IS MY GOD.AM NOT SCARED OF DYING BUT MY ONLY PROBLEM IS HOW TO UTILIZE THE FUND WE KEPT IN BANK FOR THE WELFARE OF MY ONLY SON WHO IS STILL IN A COLLAGE HERE IN SOUTH AFRICA. I HAVE PRAYED OVER THIS ISSUE AND MY SPIRIT    

  

  

  

  

DIRECTED ME TO CONTACT YOU TO ENJOINING YOU TO UNDERTAKE THE MAINTENANCE AND CUSTODY OF MY SON AND THE SAID FUND WHICH I WANT TO TRANSFER INTO YOUR ACCOUNT FOR THE FUTURE AND THE BENEFIT OF MY ONLY SON.YOU WILL BE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY %25 OF THE TOTAL SUM OF THE MONEY FOR YOUR GOOD HELP AND ASSITANCE, while 5% WILL BE OUT FOR ANY EXPENSES THAT ACCORDED DURING THE PROCESS OF THIS TRANSACTION, THEN %65 WILL BE FOR MY SON'S INVESTMENTS IN YOUR COUNTRY AND I WANT %5 TO BE DONATED TO CHARITY HOME.

  

  

  

  

  

I AM NOT AFRAID OF DEATH HENCE I KNOW THAT I AM GOING TO BE WITH THE ALMIGHTY ALLAH. AND I WILL LIKE THE REMAINING TO BE MANAGED BY YOU FOR THE WELFARE OF MY ONLY SON. I HAVE RELATIVES WHOM I SHOULD HAVE INTRUSTED THIS MONEY ONTO BUT THEY ARE WORLDLY, WICKED AND COULD MISUSE THIS MONEY AND MY SPIRIT HAS REJECTED THEM FOR THIS EXERCISE.    

  

  

  

  

OUR ALMIGHTY ALLAH IS TRUST WORDY AND FAITHFULLY AND I BELIEVED AS GOOD MUSLEM I SHOULD COUNT ON YOU. I SHALL SEND

THE PARTICULARS OF THIS FUND AND EVERY OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION YOU MAY WISH TO KNOW CONCERNING THIS FUND, AS SOON AS I RECEIVED YOUR RESPONSE I WILL GIVE YOU THE CONTACT OF THE BANK AND A LETTER OF AUTHORITY WHICH WILL EMPOWER YOU AS THE NEW BENEFICIARY OF THIS FUND TO ACT ACCORDINGLY AS I HAVE STATED.  

  

  MAY THE PEACE OF OUR ALMIGHTY BE UPON YOU,

  

REGARDS.    

MRS AMINA  MOHAMMADE.

  

          

  

  

  

  

  

  

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