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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:
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • hhassan1@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "hhassan2@terra.es" <hhassan2@terra.es>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:38:56 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED



URGENT REPLY NEEDED

Attn:

Sorry for writing you through this means,but this is due to the situation I found myself,so I have no option than to write and look for a reliable person that could help me out.

My name is Husein Hassan, 20 years old from the Darfur,Sudan. My father was a rich man who does contract with the governemnt of sudan.The Sudanese Liberation Armay (SLA) a rebel force fighting in sudan,came into our hope slaughtered my mother,my brother and my two sisters and my father was staped as he struggled with him but later died at the hospital after two days.i am still alive because,i was not at home at the time they (SLA) invaded our home.While my father was at the hopital he told me of some US$35million he put in two boxes and deposited with a security vault which he intended to move out and resettle outside sudan since the crisis has deepened and crippled business activities in sudan.

I am now looking for someone who will help in investing this money into building a Tourist Hotel/shopping Mall or Real Estate in your country or any good business that is profitable in your country. I am sorry if this is not in line with your business. I need an experienced person like you to assist me to use this money set up, develop the project and assume responsibility of ownership as chairman but will be bringing in profit /distribute profit monthly or annually.who will relocate me to continue my education in your country.

You will get 30% of the total amount and same on any investment the money is invested upon.

Am right now in one of the refuge camp here and the condition here is very bad and want to leave as quickly as possible. Their is a United Nations' attached Diplomat here who has been very nice to me like a mother, she has promised to help me ship the boxes through an international diplomatic courier that ship cargos for United Nations to any reliable person that can help me in this my situation and relocate me.

Let me know if you are interested in helping out of this my bad situation and i will tell you more.
reply through this email address: hhassan1@myway.com

Husein Hassan






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