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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "confidentiality of this transaction" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
• 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.
  • rosekabila@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Rose Kabila" <info_Rosekabila@web.de> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:06:57 +0200
Subject: Greetings to you

Dear Sir,
I am Mrs.Rose Kabila, from Democratic Republic of Congo.
There is an information I would like you to keep very confidential, there is this amount of money
my Husband Late President Laurent Kabila, deposited in a security Company in Belgium for safe keeping.
Before he was killed by his Eldest Millitary Son. The squable happened as immediately we returned back
from our Belgien trip. My husband married us two.

I am the second wife. I will not be able to give you the full details that led to that urgly incidents.
The Eldest Son is the current President of our country now. For now I am staying in Abijdan the capital
of Republic of Cote d'voire, just to save my life,with my three children. The money in question, is
22, Million U.S.Dollars. I can not make the withdrawal of this fund, because my husband registered the
Beneficiary of the fund as his (Foriegn Bussiness Patner) and also (Family valuables as the content of the deposit).
The documents of the deposit are with me.

What I would want you to do is to assits me to get the Funds withdrawn from the security
company . We shall replace the name Foriegn Patner to your own name, because the code was used for security reason.

I will give you the 20% of the money for your assitance. There is no risk in this transaction. I will use the remaining
balance of the money for an investiment in your country for the future of my children.
If you are intrested and can maintain the very confidentiality of this transaction you e-mail me immediately for more
clearification, I can speak little english and my son also speaks english very well his name is Mark and thank you very much.
reply me through this E-mail: rosekabila@yahoo.com

Regards

Mrs.Rose Kabila

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