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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)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk boxes" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • muspham_30@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "muspham benson" <muspham_bb32@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 17:01:44 +0000
Subject: Mutual Business co-operation(ATTN: MANAGING

ATTN: MANAGING DIRECTOR.

Dear Sir,
I am Mr Musatapha Accounts supervisor with National Bank,Freetown, Sierra
Leone. I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On
June 6, 1999, a Foreign Diamond consultant/contractor with the Sierra
Leonean National Diamond Corporation, Mr.Simon Kelly made a numbered time
(Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at SD$27,000,000.00,
(Twenty-Seven Million Dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine
notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, I
sent a reminder and finally I discovered from his contract employers, the
Sierra Leanean National Diamond Corporation that Mr. Simon Kelly died from a
rebel attack. On further investigation, I found out that he died without
making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I
therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Simon Kelly did
not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including
his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of USD$27,000,000.00 has
carefully/confidentially been moved out of my bank to a Finance security
company in the Gambia for safekeeping. No one can ever come forward to claim
it. According to Sierra Leonean Law, at the expiration of 8 (eight)
years,the money will revert to the ownership of the Sierra Leone Government
if nobody applies to claim the fund. Consequently, my proposal is that I
want you as a Foreigner to stand in as the rightful owner of the money. I
deposited it in a security company in two trunk boxes though the security
company does not know the contents of the boxes as I tagged them to be
photographic materials for export. In the circumstance, I want to present
you as the rightful owner of the boxes in the security company so that you
can be able to claim them with the help of my attorney. This is simple. I
would like you to provide immediately your full names and address as well as
your direct telephone and fax number so that the Attorney will prepare the
necessary documents which will put you in the right place as the owner of
the boxes. The money will be moved out for us to your country and share in
the ratio of 80% for me and 20% for you. There is no risk at all as all the
paperwork for this transaction will be done by the Attorney and this will
guarantees the successful execution of this transaction on your behalf,
please reply immediately via my email address. Upon your response, I shall
then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you
understand the transaction and swing into the necessary action while I
confide in you hoping you will not betray me at last.
Thanks and God bless

Mr Musatapha.

CONTACT ME THROUG MY DIRECT MAIL BOX (muspham_30@hotmail.com) Or call me
immediately on my direct line +220 7710830

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