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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:
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • alikhalifa2@yahoo.ca
  • mohammed_2khalifa@yahoo.ca

Fraud email example:

From: "MR. ALI MOHAMMED KHALIFA" <alikhalifa2@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mohammed_2khalifa@yahoo.ca
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 11:07:42 +0400
Subject: URGENT REPLY

ALI MOHAMMED KHALIFA,
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
EMIRATE BANK INTERNATIONAL
U.A.E. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.

Good day,

Got to know of you in search for a reputable and reliable person to assist me in an urgent need requiring utmost trust and confidentiality,while browsing the internet.
After I and my colleagues have decided on what to do as regards the matter.I am MR.ALI MOHAMMED KHALIFA, the manager of Bills and Exchange under foreign remittance department of Emirate Bank International of Dubai U.A.E .

I am writing this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department.We discovered an abandoned sum of US$24.million in anaccount that belongs to one of our foreign customer whodied along
with his entire family of a wife and threechildren in October 1998,in a plane crash.

Do send your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit. I want us to meet face to face or sign abinding agreement to bind us together so that you can receive this money into a foreign account or any account of your choice where the fund will be safe and I will fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing and other investments.

To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return response.

My warm regards,
MR.ALI MOHAMMED KHALIFA,
Private E-mail
alikhalifa2@yahoo.ca
mohammed_2khalifa@yahoo.ca

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