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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:
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • jamal_basma02shy@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Jamal shehny," <jamal_basma01shy@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jamal_basma02shy@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:34:22 +0100
Subject: REPLY IMMEDIATELY

IMMEDIATELY ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED MR JAMAL SHEHNY
Dearest one
I know this proposal letter might be of pleasant surprised to you, because i feel that we do not know ourselves very well, I am Mr.Jamal Basma with my younger sister the only Son& Daughter of late, DR Basma shehny , A Liberian and now seeking asylum in Dakar Senegal under(UNHCR) I contacted you as a cause of my serious search for a reliable and trust worthy person that can handle such a confidential transaction of this nature,
My father (Late) DR Basma shehny, was the former Timber Company Director of Liberia under the executive civilian president of Liberia, but was assassinated on the 20Th July 2005 on his way to the company by the rebels during the civil war and all of our properties where destroyed by the heartless rebels. click on the this lick below
www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=71327+Liberian+war+date&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9
But I am with my younger sister narrowly escaped with some very important documents of (US$10.5M) Ten Point five Million U.S Dollars deposited by my late father in a high finance firm on my name as the next of kin.
How ever, I am sick with the problem of securing a trust worthy foreign personality like you to help us transfer this money pending when we will come over to your country for us to meet for investment of the money, furthermore I only want this to be done this way because your country is politically stable for any profitable investment i think, so please don.t for get to tell me about your country in your reply to me, and I also want to add here that if accepted by you, you will serve as the original beneficiary of the money.
I feel confidence therefore to introduce this offer to you, for your participation and all your assistance regarding this transfer, I have decided to give you 20% from the fund

,Therefore you are requested to furnish me back immediately you receive this request to assist me transfer this money out to your country residence, or any account of your interest.In commencement of this transaction I want to let you understand that the future of us depends solely on this money,
So please keep this business to yourself only to avoid raise eye brow of any third party. and please do reply me with this Email: jamal_basma02shy@yahoo.com

I am eagerly expecting your urgent response.
Yours Sincerely my sister say hello to you and your family,

Jamal shehny,

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