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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • sarb@hotmail.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "Law chidi Sarb" <lawchidi02_sarb@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 09:29:51 +0000
Subject: Business Proposal.

From. Mr Lawerence Chidi
Audit Department South African Reserve Bank.
Johannesburg.
Email= lawchidi02_sarb@hotmail.co.uk

Att.Sir

I am writing you to assist me to receive this fund in your account oversea
(USD$9.360.000.00) Nine= Million= Three= Hundred and Sixty= United States
Dollars.

This fund is generated from Over-Invoice from a Germany company. I will
provide all the necessary transfer documents in your favor as the owner of
the fund. Is risk free.

For the safety of my job, we will only communicate via mail and I will
advise you when to call me on phone merely when I am at home. If your
interested write me immediately so that I will give you all the transfer
details and banker information so that you will rech him as the owner of the
fund.

I procure the following documents.
1. Insurance certificate.
2.Authority to Remit from the department of finance.
3.Aproval from High Court.

I wait for your urgent reply.

Sincerely,
Lawerence Chidi

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