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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "ahmedmuhammed" <ahmedmuhammed@net.hr>
Reply-To: ahmed_muhamm@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:12:14 +0200
Subject: VERY URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL.

My Dear I am MR.AHMED MUHAMMED, the manager incharge of auditing and accounting section of BANK OF
AFRICA here in Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso.

I am writing to Seek your interest over a business, In my department we discovered an abandoned sum
of U.S $16.2M dollars in an account belonging to one of our foreign customer.Who died alongside with
his entire family on Monday, July 19, 2003 in a plane crash in Kenya. I don't want this money to go
into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill,is 100% risk free,view this site below.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

I wait for your reply

Thanks
MR.AHMED MUHAMMED


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