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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "mariam abacha" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447031930702 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • yvonnenwankwo@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "yvonne abacha" <ynabacha@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: yvonneabacha@helpyvonne.com
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:13:46 +0000
Subject: pls respond to this mail


Hello Dear,
Goodday! I want to thank God for your contact informations and I
appreciate your listening ear to my mail, I pray God continue to give you
every attention in life.
I got your email address from the internet where I was searching for
responsible person to assist me claim my fortune from a bank in
Europe.Ireally want you to help me, Please listen to this, i have my
late father's
statement of account and death certificate here with me which i will send to
you later, because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in a
leading bank in Europe which he used my name as the next of kin, the amount
in question is $18.2M(Eighteen Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollars).
When I contacted the bank where the money is logded, one of the directors
adviced me to look for a trustworthy individual or organization that can
stand on my behalf as trustee/ beneficiary to claim the deposit since it
cannot be released directly to me because of my refugee status in London
with United Nations. I want to leave a free life and freedom and I believe
you can help me achieve that. So i will like you to help me transfer this
money to your account and from it you can send some money for me to get my
travelling documents and air ticket to come over to meet with you. I kept
this secret to
people in the camp here.

So I need your assistance as follows:
(1)Stand on my behalf as the beneficiary for the claim of the inheritance
from the bank.
(2)Transfer the money over to your own country and into your possession
pending my arrival to meet with you.
(3)Invest and manage the money for me in a good and profitable business.
As soon as I get your acceptance I will give you the information for you to
contact the Bank for confirmation and I will issue a letter of authorisation
on your name, that will enable the bank correspond with you on my
behalf.Iam giving you this offers as mentioned with every confidence
that you will
not betray me.
Thank you again for your contact informations, I want you to understand
everything, that is why I am explaining again. So I when I finally have your
word by accepting, in your next mail. I will then forward your informations
and then send you the contact of the bank to you. I am waiting anxiously for
your reply. I have attach my photo for you and my late father's account
informations.

I want you to send me your photo or any Identity and your contact
informations phone and fax number your recent home/office address.I have
acquired a telephone which can be used to reach me anytime,but it has to be
only you.this very account is known by me alone.and the secret you must keep
is the fact that am from the ABACHA family but i have a different
mother.Mystep mother is mean and ready to do anything to get rid of
me.(mariam
Abacha)

Am 22years old,and by april i will complete 23 years of age.i could not
finish my university because my mother in question died when i was growing
up.so i was brought up with some no atom of love people.i have learnt to
live on my own,but i know God will see me through this ordeal.

Thank you once again and hope to hear from you soon.You can also write me on
my private email address: yvonnenwankwo@myway.com

God Bless,
yvonne
+447031930702

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