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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)
  • "confidentiality of this transaction" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
• 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.
  • martina_kabila@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Martina Kabila." <martina_kabila@excite.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:23:09 +0800
Subject: OFFER FOR ASSISTANCE



FROM : Martina Kabila.
URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL.
IVORY COAST
ATTN: DEAR

I am Mrs martina Kabila, from Democratic Republic of Congo. There is an imformation I would like you to keep very confidential There is sum amount of money my Husband Late President Laurent Kabila,deposited in a security company in MALAYSIA, before he was killed by his Eldest Millitary Son. The squable happened as immediately we returned back from our Malaysia 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 ugly incidents. The Eldest Son is the current President of our country now. I am staying in Abijdan, capital of Republic of Cote-D Ivoire, with my three children for my safety and that of my children. The money in question, is 4Million 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
there 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 20% of the money for your assitance.There is no risk in this transaction. I will use the remain balance of the money for an investiment in your country for the future of my children. If you are interested, and can maintain the very confidentiality of this transaction,you reply me
immediately for more clearification, and also note that I am a French woman, but I will not like to involve any French language while this transaction last, as I can speak little english, and my son also speaks english very well.
Thank you very much.
Mrs Martina T. Kabila. YOU CAN REPLY HERE martina_kabila@excite.com

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