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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447031908776 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • africanunion@katamail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "African Union" <african_union@katamail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: afriunion@aol.com
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:38:45 -0700
Subject: Assist Sudan

(WWW.SAVEDARFUR.ORG)(WWW.GENOCIDEINTERVENTION.NET)
From The Desk Of AFRICAN UNION (A.U)
Legal Attorney,
Gilbert Dumbly.
please Write to africanUnion@katamail.com

This is a letter of willingness and symphaty.shortly, there has been a serious killings and a massive DARFUR genocide in SUDAN, with an estimated death population of half the number of RWANDAN massacre victims. Recently we have covered a news of more than 3 million civilians are waiting in the camps to return safely and in comfort to their homes. The overcrowded, squalid camps in which they exist in misery in the hot arid Sahara desert are inhuman substitutes.


We have searched for a means of help, then, an Unclaimed money was traced with a security company in Nigeria the head of the (A.U) The sum of N20,000,000,000 (TWENTY BILLION NAIRA)that is in Nigerian currency. We will need your assistance to help the dying masses over there. You will have to clear the money in your name with our help. we will have to get you a personal attorney to assist you in clearance. so you will need to help the SUDDANESSE refuges in CHAD, by supplying them FOOD,DRUGS and WATER. we have mapped out a 30% share for your expences and 10% share for your personal congratulation award. we are reaching you to help come to the aid of this helpless civilians as a foreign Philantropist.we also express gratitude to the US SECRETARY OF STATE(Dr. Condoleezza Rice) and UN SECRETARY(Koffi Annan).once you indicate interest of help. I will get you a letter to write to (WFP) WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME,(WIDPP)WAR INT!
ERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS PROGRAM,(W.H.O)WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION. then assign you to an attorney.

Please this is meant to be confidential and for personal confirmations call.

AU CHAIRMAN
DR MATTEW OBONG
+447031908776
AU SECRETARY
DENNIS GOODMAN
+447024076922

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