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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:
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• 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.
  • katemaccido@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "kate maccido" <katemaccido@skymail.mn>
Reply-To: katemaccido@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:33:36 -0800
Subject: SEPCIAL MESSAGE FROM MRS. KATE M. MACCIDO.


*Good day,*
*How is your family? I forward this mail to you because i found your contact
in my late husband business address book.*
**
*I am looking for one Dr. John Bello, who helped my husband to covered up
$100,000,000.00 (One Hundred Millions US Dollars) as an
international business joint account partner with him, so that nobody can
accuse him of fraud in government as a senator of federal republic of
Nigeria.**And that was when my husband Alh.Madamasi Maccido was alife as an
executive senator of federal republic of Nigeria,before he died in the hands
of his political enemies in a plane crash with his father on the spot. on
wensday 29th october,2006. you can read more on CNN News website below:*
**
*www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/10/29/nigeria.crash/*<http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/10/29/nigeria.crash/>

*I know that you might have contacted him through an e-mail but, am
sorry for every inconvenience, we do not know his e-mail and password and
we
lost off his phone on the crash incident.**Meanwhile,all the original
documentation of the business was with my late husband's lawyer.And,i need
to transfer that fund into a foreign account so that i will get access to
the account. *

*Very importantly, you have to hurry up urgently to avoid the new gov't
Economics financial corruption crime(EFCC) KNOWING ABOUT IT, becuase once
they do the fund will be forfeited to state govrnment. **please if you are
not Dr.John Bello in the name of God I plead that you should keep this mail
as a TOP SECRET to me or if you can be able to control the transaction you
can get back to me immediately on the above or below e-mail address:
katemaccido@yahoo.com*
**
*Best regards,
Mrs. Kate C. Maccido.*

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