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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
• 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.
  • greg_shamir21@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "greg" <greg_shamir@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: greg_shamir21@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 23:33:51 +0100
Subject: greetings from greg

refrom: Greg Shamir
Dakar Senegal
Email greg_shamir21@yahoo.com <http://web.synacor.com/compose.php?Reply=greg_shamir21@yahoo.com>


Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with
you. We got your contact from a computerize data following my effort searching
for a trustworthy person to assist us.


I am Greg Shamir, the only son of late Mr and Mrs Alfred Shamir, i am here with my only sister Joy.


Our father was a very wealthy Gold merchant in Dakar, the economic capital
of SENEGAL before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discuss on a business deal.

When our mother died on the 21st October 1984,our father took me and my junior sister special because we are motherless.Before the death of our father on 30th March 2004 in a private hospital here in Dakar.

He secretly called us on his bedside and told us that he has a sum of
$18,000.000 (eighteen million united states dollar)deposited in a bank here on
his name.

He also explained to us that it was because of this wealth and some huge amount of money his business associates supposed to balance him from the deal they had that he was poisoned by his business associates, that we
should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of our choice who can assist us in claiming this fund from the bank for us for investment purposes and use it for investment purpose, (such as Hotel and real estate investment).

But because of the present nature of this country SENEGAL we
want to transfer the money out of the country as we don't know what might happen next.
We are honourably seeking your assistance in the following way.

( 1) To act as the foreign partner of our late father by claiming this fund from
the bank for further transfer and investment to your designated bank account abroad.

Moreover , we are willing to offer you 15% of the sum as compensation for effort in put after the successful transfer of this fund to your designated account in
your country overseas.

I am looking forward to your reply.

Thanks

GREGORY

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