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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:
  • "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.
  • rashid@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "tijani huseni" <tijani_huseni000028@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: tijanihuseni_rashid@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:45:05 +0000
Subject: I AM URGENTLY WAITING FOR YOUR CALL OR EMAIL.

CONFIDENTIAL PROPOSAL FROM
Mr. TIJANIHUSENI RASHID
THE CHIEF AUDITOR INCHARGE,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB).
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.
WEST AFRICA.

Dear Partner,

I presumed that all is well with you and your family. Please let this
massage do not be a surprise proposal to you because i got your contact
information from the international directory in few weeks ago before i
decided to contact you on this magnitude and lucrative transaction for our
future survival in life. Moreover, i have laid all the solemn trust in you
before i decided to disclose this successful & confidential transaction to
you.

I AM Mr. TIJANIHUSENI RASHID. THE CHIEF AUDITOR INCHARGE OF FOREIGN
REMITTANCE UNIT, AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK OUAGADOUDOU BURKINA-FASO.
Now i have the intent to contact you over this financial transaction worth
the sum of NINTEEN MILLION, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS
($19,300,000.00 ) for our success.This is an abandoned sum that belongs to
one of our bank foreign customers who died along with his entire family
through plane crash disaster since few years ago. Meanwhile i was very
fortune to came across the deceased file when i was arranging the old and
abandoned customers files in other to sign and submit to the entire bank
management for an official re-documentation and audit of the year against
2007.

Be informed clearly that it was stated in our banking rules and regulations
which was signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed till the
period of 5 years started from the date when the beneficiary died, the
money will be transferred into the treasury as an unclaimed fund. As an
honour and advantage bestowed to our foreign customers base on the rules
guideing our bank, it was stated obviously that if you are not a Burkina
Faso citizen, you have the absolute authority to claim the fund hence you
are a foreigner despite your differences from the country of origin of the
deceased. So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the
claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as
the NEXT OF KIN OR EXTENDED RELATIVE to the deceased.

On the transfer of this fund into your account, { 39% } being (
US$7,527,000.00) will be your share in respect of the account provision and
your assistance rendered during the transfer of the fund into your bank
account,{ 52% } being (US$10,036,000.00) will be my share being the
codinator of the transaction while the rest { 9% } being (US$1,737,000.00)
will be shared to the respectable Organisations Centers such as Charity
Organisation, Motherless Babies homes, and helpless disabled people in the
World.

If you are really sure of your trustworthy, accountability and
confidentiality on his transaction, contact me and agree that you will not
change your mind to cheat or disappoint me when the fund have getting into
your account. Besides you should not entertain any fear because i am sure of
the success as an insider in the bank ok.

Please reply with the assurance, include your private telephone and fax
numbers necessary for facilitate an easy communication in this transaction.
As soon as you reply , call me through my private telephone number on
( 00 226 76498168 ) so that i will let you know the next step to follow in
order to finalize this transaction immediately.
I expect your urgent communication.Please try to reply with this email.send
your number all to me
TIJANIHUSENI _ RASHID@yahoo.fr
Yours sincerely,

Mr.tijanihuseni rashid

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