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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:
  • "you will take 25%" (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)
  • "contact me immediately" (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.
  • charitehabibi_17@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "charitehabibi8 Gazeta.pl" <charitehabibi8@gazeta.pl>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 12:23:51 +0100
Subject: I Expect your urgent response if you can handle this project.


Dear Beloved ,

May the peace of our Lord be upon you and your farmily.

I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not know
before. I decided to do this after praying over the situation. You should
please consider the transaction on its content and notthe fact that you have
not known me before. I need not dwell on how I came by your contact
information because there are many such possibilities these days.

I would like to introduce myself as Mrs. Charite Habibi,of Repulic of Togo,
widow to Late Mr. Usman Habibi (former Consular of the togo embassy in
Madrid,Spain.)I have been recently been daigonosed of Cancer of the Pelvics.

I am writing from my sick bed.There is this 10.5Million my husband deposited
with a bank, here in Lome, Republic of Togo of which I am the next of kin.
With my health condition and because my husband and I have no children, I am
looking for a credible person to whom I will pass the right of next of
kin.This person will apply to the bank and request from them, the procedure
towards retrieving the fund from them.This is on the condition that you will
take 25% of the fund for yourself, 5% used for expenses, while you will use
the remaining 70% for the less previlege people in the society. This is in
fulfilment of the last request of my husband: that a substantial part of the
fund be used to carterfor the less previleged.

If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately
with your full names and contact information so that I will send you all the
documents that the bank gave to my husband when the fund was deposited. So
that you will contact the bank directly, and demand from them the procedure
towards the release of the fund to you from their bank. I cannot predict
what will be my fate by the time you wll recieve the fund, but you should
please ensure that the fund is used as i have described above.

I will be most grateful if you can come forward and help me so that I will
give you more details Please think about this project and give it a second
thought before you Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible.
Finally, it is my humble prayer that the information as contained herein be
accorded the necessary attention, urgency as well as the secrecy it
deserves.

I Expect your urgent response if you can handle this project.

contact me at charitehabibi_17@yahoo.com

Respectfully yours

Charite Habibi

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