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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:
  • "hundred thousand us dollars" (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 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.
  • fayekmumkaila@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Munkaila Fayek" <fayekmumkaila@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: fayekmumkaila@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:52:41 +0200
Subject: from Darfur in Sudan.

Attn Please,

I am Munkaila Fayek,the son of Mohammad Fayek.
My father was a well known gold and diamond dealer
from Darfur in Sudan.

He was gruesomely murdered in cold blood on the 26th
June last year 2006 during bombing of the village
of Rahad Kabolong in the western Sudanese state of
North Darfur with my mother.Before their death,

He informed me that he secretly deposited the sum of
$US8,600,000:00 (Eight million six hundred thousand US
Dollars)with a Finance Firm in the Netherlands in my name as the next of kin

He gave me all the documents covering the deposited fund
and instructed me to come down here in Belgium with my
younger sister for the retrieval and transfer of the
money to a foreign trustee for a sustainable
investment.

Meanwhile we are with all the documents that covers the fund and as
an asylum seeker it is not in our legal capacity to put up claims
to this fund This is why we need your assistance as my late fathers
foreign partner to put up claims to this fund I will forward to you
all the documents that cover this fund.

We shall offer you 25% of the fund for your assistance and efforts
while 5% will be mapped out for any expenses that we may incurred
during this transaction If interested and capable to assist me in
this transaction please get back to us immediately.

Furnish us with the following requested information as soon as
possible.
Full name....................................
Home|office address.....................
Mobile telephone Number............
Fax Number..............................
Occupation...............................
Nationality..................................
Position Hold...............................
Age............................................
Marital Status..............................
Country....................................
Bank account details.....................
PLS REPLY US WITH OUR ALTERNATE MAIL ADDRESS FOR SECURITY REASON,
EMAIL fayekmumkaila@gmail.com

Yours sincerely.
Munkaila Fayek and Sister Aminata.

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