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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "top secret" (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.
  • rabiukk01@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "sadiq zago" <sadiqzago2@hosanna.net>
Reply-To: sadiqzago@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:41:46 +0000
Subject: MESSAGE FROM MR SADIQ REPLY IMMEDIATELY


* Dear Good Friend,
Assalamualaikum
I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business proposition
though,this medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you
through it because it still remains the fastest, surest and most secured
medium of communication.

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we have never met
before, but need not to worry as I am using the only secured and
confidential medium available to seek for your foreign assistance in a
business. I am contacting you independently of my investigation and no one
is informed of this communication. I need your urgent assistance in
transferring the sum of $8.3million immediately to your private account. The
money has been here in our Bank lying dormant for nine good years now
without anybody coming for the claim of it.I want to release the money to
you as the nearest person to our deceased customer (the account owner) who
died a long with his supposed NEXT OF KIN since August 1997.

The Banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than 12
years, because the money will be recalled to the Bank treasury as unclaimed
fund. Upon receipt of your reply, indicating your interest in this
transaction,
I will send you full details on how the business will be executed. Please
keep this proposal as a top secret,and delete if you are not interested.the
sharing will be 40% for you and 60% for me.
If you are realy sure of your integerity, trustworthy, and confidentiality,
reply urgently and to prove that, include your particulars as follows.

Private telephone and fax numbers?..........
Country of Origin?.................................
Your occupation?..................................
Your official age?...................................
Your passport or ID card number?..............
<http://uk.mc254.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=rabiukk01@yahoo.fr>
sincerity,

Mr Sadiq Zago
African development Bank.
Burkina Faso, West Africa,


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