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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.
• 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.
  • dridrisamusa@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Idrisa Musa" <idrisa7musa@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 04:13:20 +0000
Subject: SEEKING FOR ASSISTANCE


Good Day,
I am Mr Idris Musa,the personal Doctor to Late Sheikh Dhari Ali
Al-Fayadh,(Prominent Iraq is House of Assembly Member ) who was killed along
with three of his bodyguards and his son were killed Tuesday morning when a
suicide car bomber slammed into his convoy in the neighborhood of
RashdiyaNorthern Baghdad, police said. While his wife died of heart attack
two weeks after the death of Late Sheikh Dhari Ali Al-Fayadh, View the
Website below for detail Story of how I lost my influential parents.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/28/iraq.main/
Late Sheikh Dhari Ali Al-Fayadh,deposited gold worth of 100kg of gold 23
karat, in security company precisely here in Burkina Faso-Ouagadougou, West
Africa.
All I need from you is an assistance to stand as one of his foreign parten
and i will be so glad to welcome you here in Burkina Faso-Ouagadougou, West
Africa. I will give you 30% of the total sum (sharing ration is Negotiable),
But most importantly I solicit your trust in this transaction and will not
want you to betray me.Please when replying this mail ,reply it in my pravite
id dridrisamusa@yahoo.fr
Yours sincerely,
Doctor. Idris Musa.

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