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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found 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.
  • gbright@o2.pl (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Sgt.Giles Bright" <gbright4@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:49:49 +0100
Subject: PLEASE TREAT AS URGENT




FROM: SERGEANT GILES BRIGHT.Camp MXP-512 Third Infantry Division Unit (T.I.D.U),Abul Uruj, Baghdad, Iraq.

Dear Friend,

PLEASE TREAT AS URGENT

Definitely I know this mail will come to you as a surprise, but I must crave your indulgence to introduce myself. I am Sergeant Giles Bright, an American soldier, currently serving in the third infantry division Unit in Iraq.

I and my colleagues stumbled in a room in one of the mansions of the former Iraq president loaded with boxes containing money; we were able to move out 2 boxes of $10M each. Because our redeployment time is close now, we want you to receive this money on our behalf, so that as soon as we are redeployed by December we shall meet with you to decide on what to do with the money, probably you may invest on our before since we are not retiring now.

The bbc web news below will make you understand the story very well http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm
If you are interested forward your telephone and fax numbers to my private email (gbright@o2.pl) so that I call you with all the details and where the boxes are located now and how they can be moved to you. Please do not expose us for security reasons.

Rgds,Sgt.Giles Bright.
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