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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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.
  • wangkimberly@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS.WANG KIMBERLY" <wangkimberly@sify.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: wangkimberly@aim.com
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 04:50:13 +0800
Subject: PROJECT FOR MUTUAL BENEFIT


Name:Mrs.Wang Kimberly
Email:wangkimberly@aim.com

Dear Sir/Madam,

Greetings to you and your family. I have a proposal for you, this is however not mandatory nor will I in any way and manner compel you to honour it against your will. I am Mrs. Wang Kimberly, an accident victim with permanent spinal cord injury that has forced me to stay in our native home in Kuala Lumpur. I do not have any companion except my only son and laptop computer that is my only source of life, since the death of my late husband Mr.Choo Wang in a plane clash on Egypt Air Flash in 2004. Please see the link below for t details of the clash:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3365721.stm

My late husband has been a seasoned diplomat with Malaysia embassy in France. Our government and the job did expose the family to numerous trips to many countries of EUROPE. It was while in one of his official duty that he met the tragedy that claimed his life with the other passengers in the ill-fated plane. My injury had made it difficult for me to follow my husband as, I occasionally do. This I take as a design by God to save my life. At the moment, I cannot even talk or walk, without the help of one of our family friend who is a nurse. She does come to help me whenever she is not working.

Let me not take much of your time in my family problem, but go direct to my reason of contacting you. I am a privy to a large deposit of money in one of the local Finance House in Europe.At the moment,I am not certain if I can travel out of Malaysia again,as a result of my ill-health. The total amount of the money was USD 15.5 Million with the intention of establishing an oil servicing enterprise after his retirement.

Money does not mean anything to me now; But,I do not want any setback in my SON education.Hence, I am contacting you to stand on my behalf for the claiming and investment of this fund for my child education who is about 12 years old now. I need a good future for him. If you are in position to assist me,kindly forward your contact information to my private email address on:wangkimberly@aim.com so that I will write the family attorney to prepare the legal paper that will enable you represent me in claiming this money.

I look forward to your sincere reply.

Mrs.Wang Kimberly.
wangkimberly@aim.com

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