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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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• 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.
  • laila_abia2002@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: LAILA ASHIKIN <laila_as08@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 03:02:07 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: REPLY PLEASE


Hello,
My Name is DR. MRS LAILA ASHIKIN from Iraq,am a medical practioner,am writing you to seek for help,though you may think that it is a joke but is a reality,i lost my Husband.Major General Hussein Ashikin last month due to insurgent of Bomb Attack in baghdad which he died with two of his security aides and Two american Soldiers,when the incident took place i was outside the country to take care of some of the iraqist Refuggees in Iran.Right now i am in Kuwait ,I have succeeded in moving my family to Kuwait,Please I need your Private bank account in any part of the world so that my bank in Iraq can transfer my Funds to you because the bank manager told me that i should look for a God fearing and trustworthy person to help me out .
At present i have applied for Refuggees Visa to United States of America,which the United states President[Mr.George Bush] granted about twenty seven thousand iraqist refuggees to come and stay in USA.so please just use your humanitarian initiatives to Help me,please after the transfer of this money to your account,you will take 15% of the total sum.then keep the balance in your account for me untill i travel to USA to stay,from there i will open an account with any USA bank so that you will transfer my Balance of the money to my new account which i will give you when reach America.
Finally i will inform you how much that is in my Account in Iraq because the account was a joint account between me and my Late husband,all the banking document is with me i will give you all so that you will send to my bank for the transfer.Please reply me because you are the only person i contacted for this help,i got your contact when i search for USA and Asian people in the Web.I am waiting to hear from you.Please reply to my private email: -laila_abia2002@yahoo.fr
Dr.Mrs Laila Ashikin




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