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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.
  • adicoabumusa@yandex.ru (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Abu Musa" <abums20@gmail.com>
Reply-To: adicoabumusa@yandex.ru
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 12:52:54 +0100
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANTS.


Hello Friend,

Please don't take this as a junk letter-it is real.

My name is Mr.ABU Musa, an auditor in one of the commercial Banks in Ghana.
I am writing to solicit your urgent assistance to transfer the sum of
US$14,000.00 to your account.
This funds is the excess of what my Branch, in which i was the head of the
team made as profit during the last year Auditing. I have already submitted
an approved end of the year report for the year 2007 to our head office here
in Accra-Ghana and they will never know of this excess.I placed this amount
of $14,000.00 on the bank pool account without a beneficiary.

As an employee in the Bank I can not be directly connected to the money
that is why I am contacting you to assist in receiving the funds into your
bank account in your country, so that both of us can share the funds.This
transaction is going to be a Bank-to-Bank transfer and I need you to stand
as the original depositor and beneficiary of the funds.If you accept this
offer,

I will appreciate you send to me your personal phone and fax numbers
through this email address:( adicoabumusa@yandex.ru) for more details on the
modalities of the transaction.I wait for your prompt response.

Regards,
Mr.ABU Musa.

Anti-fraud resources:

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