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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)
  • "the consignment" (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)
  • "30% for you " (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)
  • "can i trust you?" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "courier service" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "dying merchant" 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.
  • pressleyrmarshall@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3apressleyrmarshall@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "genmarshall Gazeta.pl" <genmarshall@gazeta.pl>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 14:15:00 +0200
Subject: Greeting From Military Unit Here In Bain Iraq Baghdad


Dear Friend,
I hope my email meets you well. My name is Gen Marshall Pressleyr. I am in
the Engineering military unit here in Bain Iraq Baghdad , with Oesophageal
cancer which has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I
have only about a few weeks/month to live, according to medicalexperts. My
late 2 colleagues who died in a bomb blast and I found a huge sum of $35
Million USD in Baghdad neighbourhood(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm) that we have
successfully moved out of the country to Cotonou Benin Republic via a
diplomatic courier service.

I am contacting you because i want you to help with claiming of this
merchandise and help me distribute them to charity organizations and
homeless people.

I feel distributing the funds would be a way to appease the LORD and also
want God to be merciful to me and my late friends and also accept our souls
,because we have killed so many in the war, but we where only serving our
country. I have decided to give this sum 0f $35 Million US to charity
organizations, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on
earth.I will want you to help me collect this consignment and dispatched it
to charity organizations like i have said earlier.I have set aside 30% for
you and your time.

The most important thing is that can I TRUST you?Once you claim the funds
from the security company were the consignment deposited ?, and also would
you distribute the rest 70% to charity organizations?. Your own part of this
deal is to contact the SECURITY Company on how the consignment can be
released to you If you are interested I will furnish you with more details.

But the whole process is simple and we must keep a low profile at all times
because if the authorities are aware of this funds, it would be seized and
used for purchasing ammunitions and irrelevant accessories,whereby we have
so many sick, homeless kids dying with hunger.

I am awaiting your urgent response through my private email below
E-Mail:pressleyrmarshall@gmail.com <E-Mail%3Apressleyrmarshall@gmail.com>.
Regards.

Gen Marshall Pressley

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