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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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.
  • msbola_moh@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • msbolam@jmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ms Bola Moh." <msbola_moh@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 12:31:48 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Proposal


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: msbola_moh@yahoo.com

Hello dear,


Compliments of the season and God? most important blessings be upon you and your family.


I know by now you must be wondering who this writer is. Dont worry, with time you read through this, you will come to know me as well as consider whether to go along with me or reject my extending hands of fellowship.


I am, by name, Bolanle Mohammed; a lady of 38 years old, and a former Personal Assistant to the former late first lady of Nigeria, Mrs. Stella Obasanjo. You must have heard of her unfortunate death at a Spanish hospital on the 23rd of October, 2005 during a complication arising from a surgery operation. That date marked the beginning of my woes now. To imagine me behind the bar on my arrival from Spain and being accused of things beyond me is inhumanity. I never witnessed the burial of my former boss.

The good thing today is that I have regained my freedom through a court order, and I am now faced with the burden of re-organizing my shattered self. This however does not warrant your being sympathetic to me. Forget it! What I really want from you now is assistance, and if you are ready to go it with me, you must have to give me your words first that you will not betray or take advantage of my low profile to rub me of whatever trust that I am going to bequeath to you. Do I assume that I have your word?


Now that I have your promise, the help I need from you is very simple but critical. I need you to help me collect some money and keep for me. It happened that as a PA to my former boss, she, some time last year before her death had given me the sum of $500,000.00 (five hundred thousand dollars) which I was to pay into her account in abroad and from where her medical expenses were equally withdrawn. Don? forget that I am the only one responsible for these financial matters so long as whatever clearance has her endorsement. So, on the news of her death, I had to deposit this last sum with a security company in Spain with the hope of coming back for it. This however has been the cause of my travails. I have told them all I knew about Madam? account, but they still feel that I am hiding some. I have also no intention of releasing this last money because it will still go into a private account of Mr. President and his cohorts. This is why I am appealing to you for help me.


All we need do is to order this company to transfer the money, or by my instruction pay you cash by whatever channel you may suggest. Once this is perfected, you could apply for a license as a foreign investor and come with the money. If we do not let the human greed to thwart our emerging business relationship, we are going to share this money as follows: 30% for you; 60% for me and 10% will be for overhead expenses. No risk, only honesty and sincerity. Don? forget we have other businesses I am yet to propose after the successful completion of this assignment, because all my traveling documents are confiscated.


Please while responding to this mail, let me have the necessary data concerning you to enable me forward to the security firm in Spain for fast transfer of the said money. This data may include your direct phone number, Your Bank information, and self identification document or driving license, your contact addresses and any useful information you feel necessary for a smooth transaction of this proposal.


While expecting your positive response, I would rather remind you of our oath of secrecy over this communication.


May the good Lord protect us all from the hands of our detractors, Amen!


Yours friend,


Bola (Ms).

msbolam@jmail.co.za



- Ms Bola Moh.

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