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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business" (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.
  • goodluck@alex4all.com
  • goodluck@alex4all.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr jan mbala" <goodluck_mbala34@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: goodluck@alex4all.com
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:36:20 +0000
Subject: VERY IMPORTANT BUSINESS!!

VERY IMPORTANT BUSINESS!!
FROM: Mr Jan Guck Mbala
GROUP AUDIT FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DIVISION
ALPHA BANK LONDON
66 Cannon Street, London EC4N.
Tel: 44 - 800 - 0325056
Fax: 44 - 800 - 9156758
mail: goodluck@alex4all.com

DEAR ,

RE:TRANSFER OF 36,759,000.00 MILLION POUNDS TO YOUR
ACCOUNT.

Make sure that you contact me back because i sent only
you this urgent transation.

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important
business.Though, this medium (Internet) has been
greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it
because it still remains the fastest medium of
communication. However, this correspondence is
unofficial and private, and it should be treated as
such.

At first I will like to assure you that this
transaction is 100% risk and trouble free to both
parties.

IN ORDER TO TRANSFER OUT (THIRTY SIX MILLION SEVEN
HUNDRED AND FIFTY NINE THOUSAND POUNDS STERLINGS) FROM
OUR BANK HERE IN LONDON. THE FUND FOR TRANSFER IS OF
CLEAN ORIGIN. THE OWNER OF THIS ACCOUNT IS A
FOREIGNER, a program leader who was believed to
acquire the fund through his secret Crude Oil deal
with the Former IRAQI Government.The deceased died
with all the members of his family in an auto-
accident in JUNE 23, 1999 without a WILL. The amount
involved is [36, 759,000.00 POUNDS STERLINGS].

I WANT TO TRANSFER THIS MONEY INTO A SAFE FOREIGN
ACCOUNT ABROAD BUT I DON'T KNOW ANY FOREIGNER WHOM I
CAN TRUST, I KNOW THAT THIS MESSAGE WILL COME TO YOU
AS A SURPRISE AS WE DON'T KNOW OURSELVES BEFORE, BUT
BE SURE THAT IT IS REAL AND A GENUINE BUSINESS. I
CONTACT YOU BELIEVING THAT YOU WILL NOT LET ME DOWN
ONCE THE FUND GOES INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.

Remember to contact me through this email: goodluck@alex4all.com

Let me hear from you URGENTLY by Email.You can also
fax or call me for more detail.

Regards,
Mr Jan Guck Mbala

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