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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:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • zanub_musa02@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: zanub musa <zanub_musa02@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:34:03 +0100 (CET)
Subject: ZANUB



From:Miss zanub Musa
Abidjan,Ivory Coast .
Email. (zanub_musa02@yahoo.fr)




Dear One,

With utmost reverence, It is my pleasure to acquaint you with my situation, and humbly ask for your assistance .

I am Miss zanub Musa the only child of late Mr & Mrs Sunusi Musa My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant based in Abidjan , the economic capital of Ivory coast. He was recently assassinated by his business associates in one of their outings on a business trip at the wake of the on going war in the country .

Before the death of my father in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called me to his bed side and told me that he has the sum of sixteen million United State Dollars ($16,000,000.00)
left in fixed/suspense account in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan.

Please, I need your assistance to transfer this money and come over to join you for investment as soon as possible.

Kindly reply through my private email for more detailed discussion.

Thanks and God bless.

zanub Musa.
EMAIL:zanub_musa02@yahoo.fr




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