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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:
  • "please indicate your interest" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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)
  • "a diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist 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.
  • rahman_ab77@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Rahman" <camara_ca77@yahoo.com.my> (may be fake)
Reply-To: rahman_ab77@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:24:44 +0800
Subject: Hello Dear

I am mr.Rahman Abdul,A south african working with senegal branch of
african development bank group as the manager.I humbly wish to seek your
assistance in a matter that is very important to me which requires
utmost ! urgency and confidentiality.

The sum of twenty million united states dollars which emanate from my
bank that was burnt down few weeks ago.A lot of loses were incured both in
cash and documentations.Before the fire incidence,We had in cash a
foreign exchange to turn of twenty million united state of america
dollars.After the fire accident,The board Trustees of the bank surmoned me to
account for damages.I declared that the foreign exchange was completey
burnt.But the truth is that the money is safe in my personal custody for
obvious reasons i can not possibly place this fund with established
financial institutions and this requires me to urgently lookfor a reliable
foreigner to help move this fund out where i kept the fund.


He / she should be cappable to Invest/Manage it for me for some time
before i finally resign from my office.It is also my wish that this deal
be handled as quietly as possible with out any leakage to the press.If
you agree to act as a fund manager for me,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.

Right now i have used the help of a diplomat working with a security
company to move the money to an affiliate company in malaysia to avert
some unnecessary Barriers ,All i want you to do is to move to malaysia
and act in my favour.You shall contact the MALAYSIA company for you to
help me put the money in your acount,
Cos the bank have arrested me and put me in detention in west africa
here,I have proven to them that i knows nothing about the fire,I have
drafted this mail to my son to make a contact to move to malaysia so the
demmurege for me to pay when am out of the detention will not be too
much,
I will give you the contact of the security company in malaysia as
soon as you write back so you can meet them up and claim the fund on my
behalf and put the money in your acount till am out of the detention.


Sixty five percent for you and five percent shall be used to reinburse
expenses you or I might incure during the transaction.you shall be
entitled for 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

rahman_ab77@yahoo.com

Best Regards,

RAHMAN ABDUL.

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