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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)
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • j_robert2k7@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: JAMES ROBERT <j_robert_08@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <j_robert2k7@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:12:21 +0100
Subject: Awaiting Your Response.



Dear Sir/Madam,
Attention Please, I feel obliged writing this mail to you. I am not quite exposed to foreign business and friends hence I write to you with hope and trust that you will welcome my mail without being bias and that you will be trustworthy to me.
In order to transfer out 10,500,000.00 ( Ten million, five hundred thousand US Dollars )from our bank here in China. I have the courage to look for a reliable and honest Person who will be capable of handling this Important Business transaction.
The owner of this account is Mr. Nelson Wilfred foreigner and the Manager Of petrol chemical service, a chemical engineer by Profession and he died since 1999.the account has no other beneficiary And my Investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know anything about this account.
I want to transfer this money into a safe foreign account abroad but I don't know any foreigner, I know that this message will come to you as a surprise as we have not had any correspondence before and you have to admits that we don't know ourselves before.
I believe in God that you will never let me down in this transaction till the fund is remitted to your nominated account while I will travel to your respective country to collect my own share of the money, and at the conclusion of this business, you will be offer 30% of the total amount while 65% will be for me while 5% will be for any expenses.
I look forward to your earliest reply by email through this private email … j_robert2k7@yahoo.com , for more details.
Best regards,
James Robert.
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