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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:
  • "diplomatic security company" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "mariam abacha" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "sani abacha" (the name of a person or institution often appearing 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_abacha20006@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mariam_ab20@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 08:10:07 +0000
Subject: Please help me and my family

ATTN:
Compliments of the day to you, A very Good day to you .My name is Hajia
Mariam Abacha, widow of the Late Gen. Sani Abacha former Nigerian Military
Head of State who died as a result of cardiac arrest.
I therefore decided to contact you in confidence so that I can be able
to move out the sum of US$10,760,000.00 ( Ten Million Seven hundred and
Sixty Thousand U. S. Dollars ) which was secretly defaced and seal in big
metal box for security reasons in your account.

I personally therefore appeal to you for your urgent assistance to move
this money into your country where I believe it will be safe since I cannot
leave the country due to the restriction of movement imposed on
me and members of my family by the Nigerian government.

You can contact me through, or my family lawyer . Upon the receipt of your
acceptance to assist me, my lawyer shall arrange with you for a face to
face meeting outside Nigeria in order to liaise with him towards the effective
completion of this transaction.

However, arrangement has been put in place to move this money out of the
country in batches in a secret vault through a diplomatic security company
to any of the European country as soon as you indicate your
interest. I also want you to be assured that all necessary arrangement for
the hitch-free of this transaction has been concluded.

Conclusively, I have decided to offer you 25% of the total sum 5% will be
for whatever expenses that will be incurred, while 70% is to be used in
buying shares in your country subsequent to our free movement
by the Nigerian government.please write me back through this e-mail address:m_abacha20006@yahoo.com


Please reply urgently and treat with absolute
confidentiality and sincerity.

Best regards,
HAJIA Mariam.
ABACHAc/o Ba

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