419 scam: "Mr.Aime Kilolo Musamba"<sarahnoel@mail.kz> Compliment!!

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Aime Kilolo Musamba" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <aimekilolomusamba12@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 22:50:44 -0800
Subject: Compliment!!

Dear Partner,

My name is Mr. Aime Kilolo Musamba, I am the lawyer to The Democratic
Republic of Congo’s former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba who is
facing trial in The International Criminal Court (ICC) in Netherand,
Presently i stay in the U.K, Am contacting you in regard of some of my
client (Jean-Pierre Bemba) funds that is in a bank in Europe, the fund
was deposited in the bank along with some vital document and some
valuable goods.

My good friend what i want from you is for you to act as our foreign
partner that we are doing business with, i will provide you with all
document for your to be able to cliam the fund and the valuable goods.

You can open this link for you to know what am talking about

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Bemba

Please if your are ready to do this transaction with me, you get back
to my with the following information.

1) Full Names

2)Home Address

3)tel/fax number

4)What you do for leaving

with this information i will be able to prepare you as how foreign
business partner.

Regards,

Mr.Aime Kilolo Musamba

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