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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "please indicate your interest" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united states dollars" (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 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.
  • moisewilliamsfyi@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Moise" <williamfyi080@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:14:49 +0000
Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL


Dear Friend,


I am Mr Williams Moise, A Central African from Congo Kinshasa working with the Senegal branch of African Development Bank group as the regional manager.I humbly wish to seek your assistance in a matter that is very important to me which requires utmost ! urgency and confidentiality.I want to start investment with the sum of Ten Million United States Dollars (10.000.000.Million$) in your country or any other country with good economic stability and political climate you may recomend. I shall be interested in realestates, Hotels business.Stocks and bonds or any other business you might recomend.

This money came up after our bank was burnt down few months ago. A lot of loses were incured both in cash and documentations.Before the fire incidence, We had in cash a foreign exchange amounting to twenty million united state dollars. After the fire accident, The board of the bank sumorned me to account for damages.I declared that the foreign exchange was completey burnt.But the truth is that the money is save in my personal custody. For obvious reasons i can not possibly place this found with any established financial institution or spend the money here due to it's serial numbers and this requires me to urgently look for a reliable foreigner to help move this found out of This country to europe or america or any other developed and industralized country around the world.


I want an investor who can assist me Invest/Manage this money for me for some time before i finally resign my appointment. It is also my wish that this deal be handled as quietly as possible with out any leakage to the press or any authority.If you indicate your willingness to act as a found manager, then i will release the money to! you if you meet my requirements. Upon a favorable response from you i shall let you know how to receive the found. After successfull deal, Your commission shall be thirty percent of the total sum for your candid assistance in safely moving the money offshores of Senegal and Africa.


Sixty five percent for me and five percent shall be used to re-inburse expenses you or me might incure during the transaction. you shall be entitled to an annual fourty percent of the after tax returns for the fist two years of managing my share of the deal in good business. There after the terms shall be reviewd. If you are willing to do this please indicate your interest via my confidential e-mail- moisewilliamsfyi@yahoo.com <mailto:moisewilliamsfyi@yahoo.com>
Best Regards,
Mr Williams Moise.

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