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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)
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "is 100% risk-free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "chief auditor" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • ouedraogo@yahoo.com
  • ahmed_danga50@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: kabero_ouedraogoa50 <kabero_ouedraogoa50@superposta.com>
Reply-To: kabero_ouedraogo@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:32:11 +0000
Subject: Hello My Dear friend,


*Hello My Dear friend,*

* *

*How are you doing together with your entire family, I hope all is well?
Please carefully read and understand my reason of contacting you through
this email. I am Mr Kabero Ouedraogo. The chief Auditor Bill and Exchange
Foreign Remittance Unit African Development Bank (ADB). Ouagadougou Burkina
- Faso West Africa.*

* *

*Here. I am contacting you because of an abandoned sum of Nineteen Million
Three Hundred Thousand United State Dollars. ($19.3 Million) that was
deposited by a late customer of this bank called Mr. Rafik Bahaa Edine
Hariri. *

* *

*A very prominent man who was doing business transaction with our bank. He
was a citizen of Lebanon. This bank unfortunately lost his life through
assassinated on February 14, 2005 when explosives equivalent to around 300
kg of C4 were detonated as his motorcade drove past the Saint George Hotel
in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. *

* *

*The bank has no knowledge about his death. Upon this discovery that i
decided to make this business proposal to you since the banking laws and
guidelines here **stipulate that if such funds remain unclaimed here after
nine years, the money will be transferred into the Central Bank Treasury as
unclaimed fund. *

* *

*My stand to contact you now is that, a foreign has the legal right to put
claim to such deposit followed by you will proof your claim with the bank.
Therefore, I want you to apply as his business partner. This transaction is
going to be a success because, a foreigner is compulsorily needed to present
himself or herself as the next of kin to this deceased bank customer and
hence the beneficiary of the fund because the fund depositor was a
foreigner. I therefore, desperately need your assistance to claim and
receive this huge sum of money into your account.*

* *

*For the assistance in this transaction, you will be entitled to 40% of the
total fund in respect of the provision of your bank account and the
assistance you are to render on the process. 55% would be for me as the
originator and initiator of the transaction, and the rest 5% will be used to
off-set any minor expenses which may arise during the process of
transferring the fund into your account. I and my entire family will leave
here immediately for your country in order to share the profits and we also
invest part of my own share over there, as soon as the fund is transferred
into your account. *

* *

*Please endeavour to keep this transaction very secret and highly
confidential because i will lose my work here as bank staff, where the bank
authority here finds out that you and I are collaborating in this "Special
Deal". Please also be rest-assured that this business is 100% risk-free, and
all the information and data's you will need to make successful claim of
this fund in the bank here are fully ready with me here.**

Note Well: Please urgently confirm your willingness and interest to assist
me by filling and sending back to me the needed information below and also
call me immediately on my private *

*1. Your full name:**
2. Your phone Telephone and fax numbers :
3. Your age:
4. Your sex:
5. Your occupation:
6. Your country and city:

Thanks and best regards.*

*Mr Kabero Ouedraogo.*

*Email:Kabero Ouedraogo@yahoo.com*

* <http://us.mc458.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ahmed_danga50@yahoo.fr>*

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