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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.
• 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.
  • bako007@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: AHMED BAKO BAH <ahmedbako98@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: bako007@myway.com
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:09:54 +0100
Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL


Attn:Sir/Mdm,
Please accept my apology for contacting you this
way which was due to the urgency of my request.
I am in need of a worthy business partner abroad
who can handle the investment of specified funds
which have been lying fallow for sometime.
I have looked around and seen that you would be
able to render this invaluable service to me.
If you accept to work with me, you would be my
foreign partner to receive the said funds on my
behalf. Due to the sensitive position I occupy
in my place of work, I would want you to hold
the funds in some investment until I can travel
to meet with you.
At your request I will intimate you with the
blueprint when I receive your mail. If the contents
of this mail assaults your professional ethics and
personal values, please pardon my ignorance and do
not hesitate to contact me via my private
email:bako007@myway.com if you are in
a position to assist.
Hoping to hear from you soon.
My regards.
Mr Ahmed Bako,

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