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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:
  • "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • amandine20@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Amandine Dugan <amandine20@sify.com>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 17:20:06 +0200
Subject: Letter From Amandine




Dearest friend,

I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events and the late fra=
gile political situation of our country Kenya, but it had formed consisten=
t headlines in the CNN,BBC news bulletins.

My name is Amandine Dugani,i'm 21years old Kenya citizen. i am the Daughte=
r of Late Mr. Williams J. Dugani.My late father before his death, was the =
Formerl Minister works. My Father was kill by the oposition in the present=
government of Kenya,in which he denyed. The main reason why we are contac=
ting you now, is to seek for your urgent assistance in the area of our fut=
ure investment out this country. And also for a helping hand over some amo=
unt of money which my Late father left for us as inheritance before this u=
ntimely death.=20

This money amounted at the sum of (US$9.5m$) Nine Millon Five Hundred Thou=
sand Dollars. my late father deposited it in outside our country years ago=
. We are outside our country now, in a refugee camp. And we Kenya after th=
e death and burial ceremony of my father. i came to contact you to help us=
stand as our foreign partner to help me retrieve this money and also secu=
re visa to abroad to your country for investments of this money into reale=
state investments and industrial productions.
=20
I have contacted the bank where this money was deposited in Cote D'Ivoire,=
but they explained to me that due to my refugee status they will not rele=
ase it to me,that i should present somebody or a company to stand on my be=
half. i am now asking you to please help me and stand on my behalf for the=
claim of this money as my fathers foreign parther/ investor in Oversea.
=20
Please if you are willing to assist me,indicate your interest and contact =
me;
Miss Amandine Dugani
Tel; +22547577338.
Email;amandine20@sify.com

yours truly,
Amandine.


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