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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:

• 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.
  • hassanabdulkarim@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: byaKAREEM HASSAN <domkareemhassan@netscape.net>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 17:32:57 +0200
Subject: HEALTH ASSISTANCE fyokv

GREETINGS,
As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because, I
believe everyone will die someday. My name is HASSAN ABDUL KAREEM , a
merchant in Safat, in (Kuwait) I was married with two children. My wife
and two children died in a car accident six years a go. I have been
diagnosed with Esophageal cancer. It has defiled all forms of medical
treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live,
according to medical experts.
I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared
for anyone (not even myself) but my business. Though I am very rich, I
was never generous, I was always hostile to people and only focused on
my business as that was the only thing I cared for. But now I regret all
this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to have
or make all the money in the world.
I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world I
would live my life a different way from how I have lived it. Now that
God has called me, I have willed and given most of my property and
assets to my immediate and extended family members as well as a few
close friends. I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul so, I
have decided to give alms to charity organizations, as I want this to be
one of the last good deeds I do on earth. So far, I have distributed
money to some charity organizations in the U.A.E, Algeria and Malaysia.
Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this myself
anymore. I once asked members of my family to close one of my accounts
and distribute the money which I have there to charity organization in
Bulgaria and Pakistan; they refused and kept the money to themselves.
Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended
with what I have left for them. The last of my money which no one knows
of is the huge cash deposit of Ten Million Seven Hundred Thousand
American dollars (U.S. $10.700, 000) that I have with a finance/Security
Company abroad. I will want you to help me collect this deposit and
dispatched it to charity organizations. I have set aside only 20 % for
you and for your time and also 5% as miscellaneous expenses. Reply me at
your earliest convenience for more directives to my private email
address:hassanabdulkarim@netscape.net
God be with you.
Regards,
HASSAN ABDUL KAREEM

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