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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "the consignment " (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)
  • "trunk boxes" (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 next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • idrisu_gawa@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "IDRISU RUSANGANWA" <idrisurusanganwa_002@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: idrisu_gawa@yahoo.ca
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:02:53 +0000
Subject: Good day...pls read and reply me soon.

Dearest one,

I am Idrisu Rusanganwa 21 yrs old from Darfur SUDAN. Before
contactingyou,i have seek the advice of few elderly people in my family
without leting them know my plan.I was told that even if i send this email
to you,you will not believe because of too much scam and other ways of
deceivingpeople. Please understand that this email is not to let you give
me money or your bank details but for you to help me in what i feel belongs
to me.Please don't be confused or have doubt about me and dont see me as bad
person because I am not.

My father by name Badru Rusanganwa was killed by rebels because he refused
to give them stocks of Diamonds/Golds since they know he deal mainly on
Diamond/Golds and they know he sells to buyers from Belgium,UK and France. I
was aware of his business with this people before he died and since
then,i have lost all my fathers property. I suffered so many plights and
difficulties at my age but my life was spared by the of the ( U N ) peace
maker . I was at home when a letter was brought in and when i opened it to
read the letter,it was informing me of what my father made a safe deposit in
(GHANA ,west africa) for safe keeping and fear of loosing it but still he
lost his life. The company sent this letter to the occupant of my fathers
house but I was furtunate to received the letter...After a thorough search
in my home,I found some documents relating to the letter I received.

I opened the envelope which stated that Two trunk consignment boxes
recorded and when i opened it to read.
it was saying that Mr Badru Rusanganwa deposited Two trunks consignments
boxes on 10th May 2003 in case if he did not return for claim, the said
two consignments trunk boxes should be release for his foreign business
partner and his next of kin and without his foreign partner the
consignment should not be release but i dont know who amongs his business
partner and i dont know where they live in europe either. Please my
present situation with my mother is very bad here in Ghana, at the refugee
camp, as we cannot eat 3times a day so do all you can to help me stand as
the foreign partner to the consignment and God will bless you if you help
us to get this consignment boxes.

Please do all you can to get the consignment boxes but do promise me that
you will not disappoint or run away with it when you get it.
For your assistance to receive this two consignment boxes in your country,
we have proposed two options for you.
1)You may go into partnership with us for the proper profitable
investment of the money in your country.
2)If you do not prefer a partnership, we are willing to give you 25% of the
sum of the total of ($ 16.5million ) to you, 5% will be used to defray any
expenditure that you may incure during the process of this transaction and
the while the remaining 70% will be my family prior for investment in your
country.

NB: the total boxes deposited to the security company by my late father is
two boxes and the content of the first box is ($16.5 million) and the second
box contains 45 kilos of ALLUVIAL Gold dust.

PLS VISIT THIS WEB SITE FOR MORE CONFIRMATIONS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4926234.stm

Dearest one, be endeavour to keep this business strictly
confidential for security and safety purpose. I will be most greateful if
you can help us to receive our one consignment box. Immediately we hear
from you we give you the detail about the security company so that you can
contact them on how to receive the two consignment boex on our behalf.

Yours Faithfully,
Idrisu Rusanganwa ( for the family)
email : idrisu_gawa@yahoo.ca

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