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

Fraud email example:

From: chukwudi wd <med_ester@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 03:22:31 +0530
Subject: I NEED YOUR ANSWER VERY URGENT



5th Floor, Barkly WharfLe Caudan WaterfrontPort Louis London.
30th Mar. 2007,Dear Sir ,
How are you today. I hope everything is fine? Is a pleasure writingwithout knowing you in person. Anyway I will be glad if you can honor my massage and reply back, I would have writing you before now but I was busy in the office throughout the week . At least through mail, we can be good friends and business partner in future. I have to be straight, my name is Awesome Chibiko and I work with the Co-operative Central Bank, Port Louis London as accountant. My intention of writing you is because I want to investinto tourism in Asia through you. To be frank, after our bank acquiredDelphis Bank because it was closed on March 8 2005, because of fraud andirregularities. It happens there are some accounts which the owners havenot ask of it since our bank took over. I have to use my post asaccountant to pull the money from three different accounts of somecompanies worth 3.5 Millions Great Britain Pounds.
Due to danger, i have made every arrangement on how the money will bedelivered to you in your country without going through banking as to avoid implications. As we have not meet before, any question youdeem to ask, i m ready to answer you for us to move towards making theinvestment a reality within some weeks. You are at the side of receiving the money and at same time put into investment. As for now, I won't like to go into conversation through phone for safety, Please write me through my alternate email address [awesome_chibiko@yahoo.com] Regards, Mr Awesome.C.
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