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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:
  • "i would like to apply through this medium for your co-operation" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge deposit" (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)
  • "your country for safe keeping" (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)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • mariyamuhamza@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Mariyamu Hamza" <mariyamuhamza@web.de> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mariyamuhamza1@voila.fr
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:23:23 +0000
Subject: Can I have Confident in You

Good Day,

I would like to apply through this medium for your co-operation and to secure an opportunity to invest and do joint business with you in your country. i feel confident therefore to introduce myself and this offer to you based on this problem of war in my country.

Evertheless I am Mrs. Mariyamu Hamza, aged 52 years, the wife of Major Abdiwahab Hamza, former Minister of Interior in Somalia.

As a result of war in my country, I am saddled with problems of my ill health of protracted diabetes and high blood pressure which is getting of increase in the resent times and also getting a trust worthy individual abroad to receive the sum of US$8.2 million deposited by my late husband on our behalf, before he was kill by the rebel.

Due to this war crises in my city Mogadishu our home town,me and my son Danjuma 23 years of age and my daughters were sneaked out of Mogadishu to Dakar senegal through the land boarder for safety by the help of some government militant group.

Before my husband was killed by the hearthed rebel he adviced me to get a trust worthy individual abroad to receive the deposit. I feel confident therefore to introduce myself and this offer to you based on this problem of war in my country and our present condition as all our foreign contacts and connections got lost during this crises, all properties burnt by the rebels.

I am desperately in need to move and re-locate this huge deposit to your country for safe keeping on the advice of my husband as this is the only wealth remaining for the future survival and well being of our large family.

I shall be glad to reserve this respect and opportunity for you,if you so desire,but do urge you to give the matter your immediate attention it deserves. If this proposal is acceptable by you, please do not make undue advantage of the trust i bestow on you,and your urgent reply is highly needed ,for more detailes informations.

For your percentage for assistance, a negotiable percentage will be discussed as soon as I receive your response based on this plea for your assistance as our lives are highly in danger due to war.

Looking forward to your candid and urgent and positive reply today on Email, mariyamuhamza@yahoo.com

Sincerely yours.

Mrs. Mariyamu Hamza
N/B: always contact me on this mariyamuhamza@yahoo.com for urgent respond.

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