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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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.
  • mable_kabila0010@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mable kabila" <mablekabila0010@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:37:37 +0000
Subject: Mrs Mable Kabila


From: Mrs.Mable.
I am Mrs.Mable Kabila, from Democratic Republic of Congo. There is an
imformation I would like you to keep very confidential There is sum ammount
of money my Husband Late President Laurent Kabila, deposited in a security
company Abidjan Cote d'ivoire for safe keeping. Before he was killed by his
Eldest Millitary Son.
The squable happened as immediately we returned back from our London trip.
My husband married us two.I am the second wife.I will not be able to give
you the full details that led to that urgly incidents.

The Eldest Son is the current President of our country now. For now I am
staying in Abijdan, the capital of Republic of Cote d'voire,just to save my
life,with my three children. The money in question, is 22, Million
U.S.Dollars. I can not make the withdrawal of this fund, because my husband
registered the Beneficiary of the fund as his (Foriegn Bussiness Patner) and
also (Family valuables as the content of the deposit) The documents of the
deposit are with me.

What I would want you to do, is to assits me to get the consignment
withdrawn from the security company, and we shall open a small account in a
Bank here in your name, and transfer the money to your country, through the
account .We shall replace the name Foriegn Patner to your own name, because
the code was used for security reason. I will give you the 10% of the money
for your assitance.Ther is no risk in this transaction. I will use the
remaining balance of the money for an investiment in your country for the
future of my children.

If you are intrested, and can maintain the very confidential of this
transaction,you e-mail me
immediately for more clearification, and also note that I am a refugees in
Abidjan, Cote d' lvoire becuase of the assasnation of late husband,and the
civil war going on in our country,Democratic Republic of
Congo.information.or contact me in my private email:*
mable_kabila0010@gmail.com*
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Mrs.Mable Kabila.

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