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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:
  • "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)
  • "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • farkarb200@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3afarkarb200@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "myofficemail2001 Gazeta.pl" <myofficemail2001@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: fkarbouli@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:27:49 -0700
Subject: I NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU


Dr Mrs Fareeza Al-Karbouli
No.550,Al-Jadria Districit
AL-Rasafa,Baghdad.
Rep. of Iraq

Hello my dear,

PROPOSAL FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP


First and foremost,let me apologize for any inconveniences this proposal may
cause you as we have never met or known each other before.Meanwhile,I know
this will surely come to you as a big surprise.

I am Mrs Fareeza Jamal Al-Karbouli,an Iraqi National from the northen
Kurdish town of Qaradagh.I am the wife of Dr Jamal Al Karbouli,formerly an
oil Consultant and Principal Accountant with Al-Bayji oil refinery, situated
125 miles (200km)north of Baghdad.

I want to solicit for your assistance to transfer the sum of seven million
five hundred thousand US dollars(US$7.5M) which my late husband deposited
with a finance and security company in Europe.Due to my present ailment that
led to my undergoing surgery operation for a throat cancer and the present
political crisis in Iraq,I am unable to secure entry visa to travel to
Europe to claim the funds.This is the reason I am writing to solicit for
your assistance by helping me to receive and transfer the funds into your
own account,until when I will come to meet you in your country.I intend
relocating with my family to your country and invest the funds there through
your advise and assistance.

I will offer you 20% of the funds as commission for your assistance.75% of
the money is for me, whereas 5% of it shall be used to take care of overall
expenses incurred in the course of the transaction.Though there are still
rooms for more negotiations on this.

I am expecting your urgent response to enable me furnish you with details
and all the relevant documents covering the transaction and the lodgment of
the funds.I will equally give an irrevocable Power of attorney to
you,mandating you to receive the funds on my behalf as the trustee.

For security reasons,you should reply to my alternative
email:farkarb200@yahoo.co.uk <email%3Afarkarb200@yahoo.co.uk>

Please treat with utmost urgency and confidentiality.

Kind Regards.

Yours Truly,

Dr Mrs Fareeza Al-Karbouli

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