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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:
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found 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.
  • m_abasi100@canada.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mabasi100" <mabasi100@canada.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:26:52 -0800
Subject: From Muna Abasi

From Muna Abasi

How are you today?
I am Muna Abasi as you rightly know, i am 19, My mother was
an African American while my father was from the french
speaking colony of Cote D'Ivoire, i was living with my
mother not too far from Charleston building, 601 57th
Street, Charleston West Virginia USA. And i attended
Charleston senior High School, 1201 Washington Street E,
Charleston, WV. I lost my mother sometimes ago and after her
death i came to meet my father for the very first time in
Cote d' Ivoire, though he was also living in the state
before he relocated back to Cote d' Ivoire to set up a
business.

Exactely two months and one week after i came to meet my
father with the help of US consulates he died, he was very
sick when i came to meet him. But before his death there
were some document he gave to me and he told me that
everything he worked for in his life time is in the document
when i crosscheck the document i discovered that my late
father deposited 14.7 Million dollars in a security company.
my late father deposited the money as family valuables in a
trunk box.

The reason i am telling you is that i am just a girl and
there is little or nothing i could do on my own and again if
my late father relative find out that my late father left
that kind of money in my care i don't know what they might
do to me, so i need you to help me contact the security
company and claim the deposited Item for me as my friend and
Guandian, and take me along with you. If you do this for me
apart from the love i will also offer you 20% of the total
money for helping me.

Please i requested for your trust and understanding because
it might sound unbeleivable but it is the truth.
Please get back to me at my private email
(m_abasi100@canada.com)
M Abasi


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