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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 - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "you will take 25%" (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)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • mrs_zatimaabdu@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Zatima Abdulaziz <mrs_zatim@hotmail.fr>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 16:07:58 +0200
Subject: your immediate response will be useful





Dearest, How are you today and your family? I do believe that God is really in control. Please, I would like to introduce myself as Mrs zatima Abdulaziz, of Republic of Benin, widow to Late Alhaji Umar Abdulaziz, I have recently been diagnosed of Cancer of the Pelvis. I am writing from my sick bed due to the important need for contacting. Please consider the mail on its content and not the fact that you have not known me before. I need not dwell on how I came by your contact information because there are many such possibilities these days. I decided to do this after praying over the situation. There is this about my son and US$10.1Million, which my late husband deposited with a security company here in Benin of which I am the next of kin. I am writing you this mail because of my health condition. my husband and I have only my son is 14years old now, I am looking for a credible person to whom I will pass the right of next of kin so that he will take good care of my son. As he is only a little boy. You are to adopt him as your son while you will sue the wealth i will hand over to you, to train him up.
Please take note of this. This is the condition of how you will handle the wealth that i will handle to you, the amount to the us$10.1million deposited with the company in one of the two boxes. you will take 25%of the fund for yourself, 5% should be used for expenses, 40% for my son, while you will use the remaining 30% for the less privilege people in the society as a way of showing charity. This is in fulfilment of the last request of my husband when he was about to die: that a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less privileged Madrassas and also to orphanages especially to children who will become Hafiz_e_Quraan. If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately with your full names and contact information so that I will direct you on what you will do.reply at mrs_zatimaabdu@yahoo.co.in I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time the fund will be transferred into your custody, but you should please ensure that the fund is used as i have described above. your immediate reply will be very useful.
Thanks and God bless you Your's Sincerely,Mrs zatima Abdulaziz and son,
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