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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)
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a orphan 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.
  • queenamina_2007@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: queenamina@freenet.de
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:36:28 +0100
Subject: RE, THANKS


MY Dearest

Good day and Compliments, I am writing this letter in
confidence believing that if it is the wish of God for you to help me
and my family, God almighty will bless and reward you abundantly.

My
family and I are true Christians and worship\'s God truthfully. I got
your contact address from our Christians union office during my research
on some one who could help us.Firstly,I must introduce myself I am a
University student by name Queen Amina kadigbe and the name of my is
ugo he is 15 years of age.
I am 22 yrs old. I\'d like any person who
can be caring,loving and home oriented.I will love to have a long-


term relationship with you and to know more about you.I would like to
build up a solid foundation with you in time coming if you can be able
to help me in this transaction. Well, my father died earlier three years
ago and left my mother I and my junior brother behind.

He was the
senate president of CONGO KINSHASA who was poison to death few years
ago, my mother is totally down with sickness due to the death of my
father
.
Me and my brother where going through some of my father\'s
documents and we saw a deed of lodgement which my father made with a
bank in Benin Republic, the next country to KISSHAHA the amount on the
deed of lodgement is amounting to 10,500,000 dollars Ten Million,
Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) in one of the bank at Benin Republic,
and I don\'t know how and what I will do to invest this money somewhere
in abroad, so that my father\'s kindred will not take over what belongs
to my father.

However, Me and my brother has try our best to pull out
the fund , but the attorney whom we call to help us told us that my
father deposited the fund in the bank for a foriegn partner, without the
foreign partner being invovled, we can pull out the fund from the bank,
because the fund was deposited to be transfered to a foreign country.
I
saw your contact which I strongly believe that by the grace of God, you
will help me secure and invest this Fund
I hereby needs your help in
securing the Fund and help us to invest it, I and my brother we are
ready to send you the deed of lodgement just as we received your reply
and also we will furnish you with more details on how you can proceed.


I am ready to offer you 30% of the total amount to you if you help us
in securing this money and another 10% interest of Annual Income to you,
for handling this business for us, which you will strongly have absolute
control over.

If you can handle this project sincerely and also
willing to assist me in lifting this fund,kindly reach me and I will let
you know the next step to take towards actualizing this transaction as
quickly as possible. Please, note that this transaction is 100% risk
free.

I look forward hearing from you soonest through my personal
email address:
queenamina_2007@myway.com .for more clearifications.


Regards.
Yours sincerely,
QUEEN AMINA FOR THE FAMILY.

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