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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.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • musa_beke44@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MUSA BEKE" <musa_beke777@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: musa_beke44@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 11:25:24 +0200
Subject: YOUR ATTENSION IS NEEDED

CONTACT EMAIL / musa_beke44@yahoo.co.uk
MUSA BEKE & CO. LAW FIRM,
RUE 148 ZONE DES AMBASSADE
MEDINA DAKAR
SENEGAL.

Re:Attention,
I tried to send you this message before your e-mail address came up in
a random draw conducted by our law firm,Musa Beke and co. {law firm} in
senegal in Rep.du senegal.

My name is muse beke, a consultant incharge of the senegal Republic
branch of late Mrs. Stella Obasanjo’s Child Care Trust (CCT), a private
none profit, none governmental organisation formed to bring support to
the under privileged and AIDS victims and also challenges of children in
africa and the victims of hurrican katrina in america.

Mrs Stella Obasanjo a well known Philanthropist. In her zeal to
tranvers other parts of the world with her good will, before she travelled to
Spain for a major surgery which lead to her death, she made an
agreement with my chamber stating that $6.2M (six million and two hundred
thousand U.S. dollars only) out of the total liquid capital base of the CCT.
foundation should be donated to any Philanthropist/organisation/person
of our choice overseas who shall help the less privileged with this
fund.

We have made a random draw and your e-mail address was picked as the
beneficiary to this Will. I am particularly interested in securing this
money from the Bank,as they are aware of this agreement and they have
issued a notice to this effect. It is my utmost desire to execute the
Will of our late client .
You are therefore required to contact me immediately with your
personal informations to enable me to start the process of sending this money
to any of your designated account.
I urge you to contact me immediately for further details bearing in
mind that the Bank has given us a date limit.
Musa Beke Esq
(PRINCIPAL PARTNER)
Contact mevia email musa_beke44@yahoo.co.uk

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