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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:
  • "million united states 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 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.
  • mustafa_yang1970@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: yang mustafa <mustafa_yang7000@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mustafa_yang@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 21:41:40 +0000
Subject: Assalamu Alaikum.I am pleased to introduce a business to you



Attn Partner
I have decided to contact you once again through this means of communication since i did not hear from you to know if you received my last letter that I sent to you . I am now resending a copy of the letter that I have earlier sent to you for your urgent attention.I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to you,to transfer to your overseas account,sum of($15.000.000 USD) fifteen million United States Dollars) from ONE PRIME BANK here Dakar-Senegal.
I urgently want to know soonest from you,If you are not capable to handle and accommodate this magnitude of funds until i resign and come over to join for an investment in your country,tell me so that i can quietly look for another reliable and honest individual that would be capable and fit enough to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this funds,even an empty a/c can serve to receive this funds,as long as you will remain honest to me till we actualize this interest,believing that you will never let me down either now or in future.
I MR.{MUSTAFA YANG}(Bsc,Msc,)the Auditor General of ONE PRIME BANK in Senegal west Africa,during the course of our auditing,I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the our bank since 1996 and till date no body has operated on this account again,after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died long ago in a plane crash along with his family without leaving a[Heir/WILL] hence the funds is floating and if
I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.The owner of this account is (Engineer ASHLIN ALDERMAN} a foreigner before his death,he was a management consultant and he died since 1998.No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that until his sudden death he was a management consultant.the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.
I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account,which I will give to you upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instruction .I need your strong assurance that you will never,never let me down.With my influence and my position in the bank the bank official can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account that you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending on my physical arrival in your country for sharing.
I Will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place and to build confidence you can call me for heart to heart discussion through my private phone which i would give you for the security and safety of this business as you know that this business is confidential.At the conclusion of this business,you will be given 35% of the total amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring.
I look forward to your earliest reply through my email mustafa_yang1970@hotmail.com
Yours truly friend,
MUSTAFA YANG
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