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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • wambakinga@mixmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: wamba kinga <w1_kinga@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: w0_kinga@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:37:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: from wamba


Mrs.Wamba kinga
LA GLACe GUEST HOUSE
LOT 45 REU MEND,
ABIDJAN.
Address:wambakinga@mixmail.com

I am Wamba Kinga I am a widow with a chronic renal insufficiency case, a kidney decease and I am presently putting up in a guest house with my son here in Abidjan. my contacting you is base on the urgent assistance I need from you to arrange for an investment in your country .
My late husband has a deposit of the sum of $9,450 million with a security private outfit here in Abidjan before his death while in service as a General in the Army in my home country but before his death, he handed me over all the documents relating to the deposit of the box with security company and asked me to leave for Abidjan and arrange with a foreign partner to invest the money so that my children could have a better education and a good life.
Consequently, I and my son Daniel has come to this place and have located the security company and to claim the box according to the security company agreement with my late husband,the box was meant for export to my late husband foreign business associate because it was register as Africa Art Work therefore, i have to provid a foreigner and have the box of money moved abroad that is why i want to use you as my late husband's foreign associate to receive this money in your country for investment so that my son can continue his education while I am properly administered medically abroad.
Meanwhile, I will like to invest with you as you indicate your willingness, so that I can furnish you with more details about the deposit which will enable you contact the security company for the claim of the treasure.
Because of my ill health, I am mostly bedridden in the hospital on renal dialysis, this is a system of artificially doing/performing the functions of the kidneys. By this, the excess toxic waste products in my blood are washed out.
please note that you will be compensated with 21% for assisting me and my son to successfully moving this money out of this country for the investment in your country.

May God bless you
Mrs.Wamba Kinga


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