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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "confidential business" (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 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.
  • mrmousabello@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • mrmousabello1@hotmail.fr

Fraud email example:

From: "mousabello.1 Gazeta.pl" <mousabello.1@gazeta.pl>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 23:40:45 +0200
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL


*FROM THE DESK OF MOUSA BELLO
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING DEPT
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT BANK*

*OUAGADOUGOU BRANCH
BURKINA FASO. W/AFRICA.


For security reason, please reply me only through my private e-mail
address: **mrmousabello@hotmail.com*
<mrmousabello@hotmail.com><http://us.mc461.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mrmousabello1@hotmail.fr><http://us.mc461.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mrmousabello1@hotmail.fr>

*CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Dear Friend,

Please this is important and your urgent response is required if only you
are willing and ready to support me. I have an urgent transaction of
US$15.2 million! To transfer to your local bank account. My name is Mr
Mousa Bello. The Auditor General with Accounting Section of the
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT BANK, OUAGADOUGOU , BURKINA FASO .
After going through some old files, I discovered that if I do not remit this
money out urgently it will be forfeited as unclaimed fund. The owner of this
account was unfortunately died in the plane crash of Union Transport
Africans Flight Boeing 727 in Kenya , Kenya republic on the Monday July
24th 2003. You will read more stories about the crash on visiting this
website

**http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html*<http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html>

*No other person know about this account or any thing concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as
well that his company does not know anything about this account and the
amount involved is ($USD15.2 M) Only.

I want this fund ($USD 15.2 M ) Dollar be transfer into a safe foreign
account, but I don't know any foreigner, I am hereby contacting you as a
foreigner to present you to the Board of Director of this Bank as Next of
Kin and Beneficiary to the said fund because this fund cannot be approved
to a local bank here, but can only be approved to any foreign account
because the depositor was a foreigner.

I know that this message will come to you as a surprise as we don't know
our selves before, but be rest assures that this is life-time opportunity
for
both of us even for our generation to come. With believe in God that you
will never let me down in this business. You are the only person that I
have contacted in this business, so please reply urgently so that I will
inform you the next step to take urgently, Send also your private Contact
as follow:


Your full Name:
Telephone:
Fax number:
House Address:
Occupation:
Nationality:
Age:

I need your full co-operation to make my plans on this transaction work out
fine to earn the Payment Approval of the Bank Board of Directors by
following and abiding with instructions.

The mode of sharing shall be 25% for you and 70% for me and my
colleagues that are involved. The remaining 5% is for you which shall be a
reimbursement for any incurable expenses from your pocket to actualise
this plan.

I am waiting for your urgent reply so that I can mail you the full details
about this life-time opportunity transaction.

For security reason, please reply me only through my private e-mail
address: mrmousabello@hotmail.com*

*My Sincere greetings to you and your family.

MR. Mousa Bello*

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