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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)
  • "hundred thousand 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.
  • kabila_d202@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "doreen kabila" <doreen_kabila222@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:20:34 +0100
Subject: PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Friend,

It is with heart full of hope that I write to seek your candid help. I am.
Mrs. Doreen Kabila. a woman of 42 years old resident in Democratic Republic
of Congo over 25 years ago. I am the 6th wife of the Late Congo President,
Laurent Kabila who was assassinated few years ago.

You may be surprise to receive my letter, however, I got your contact from
my private search on the internet and decided to contact you for
confidential business. Since the death of my husband, president Laurent
Kabila, there has been incessant hostilities spanning in the family over his
'will. My only son Magnus Kabila. And I have been marginalized by other
wives and his first son Joseph Kabila who succeeded him as the new president
of Democratic Republic of Congo. Perhaps because of my closeness with my
late husband as his last and youngest wife or because I am a foreigner.

However, before the death of my husband, Laurent Kabila he deposited the sum
of $40.300,000.00 (Forty Million Three Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars)in my name in a bank abroad. whose name is withheld for now until we
open communication. I shall be grateful if you could receive this fund into
your account for safe keeping. I promise to give you 20% at the end of the
transaction. Observe carefully no risk inherent, so, I urge you not to
underestimate this vision. My only son Magnus and I shall come over
immediately the finacial institution transfer money to your account to meet
with you in your country.

As soon as I receive your consent, relevant documents will be prepared in
your favour authenticating you as the beneficiary of the funds I look
forward for your quick response, to my alternative email;
(kabila_d202@yahoo.co.uk) for more detail information.

Best regards,

Mrs. Doreen Kabila.

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