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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan 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.
  • evinaschurbaji0@yahoo.com.my (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR Evina Schurbaji" <kings02_jeff@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: evinaschurbaji0@yahoo.com.my
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 18:18:15 +0800
Subject:

Dear ,
First I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction and I pray that my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval considering the facts we have not known each other before.I wish to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you. I am evina schurbaji from syria damascus. I write to know my desires to invest my fathers money in any profitable business in your country.

I am the first daugther of my father mr riad schurbaji who was the former Minister of Diamond Mining Co- operation in my country. My father had a bullet shot by the rebels on his way travelling to africa on a visit to Lusia A city after morrovia the Capital of liberia long with my sister. My sister died on the spot while U.N Peace keeping force rescued my father, he later died about four months now.

Before he died he revealed to me about the deposit of three consignment boxes which contain $ 8,100,000,00 million dollar with other valuable iterms which he deposited in diplomat security company in malaysia for safe keeping. Presently, myself and my mother mrs lynda schurbaji are here in malaysia to notify the company for the claims, and we are staying in the refugee camp.

Therefore we want you to receive the said fund into your account and invest it,because my father told us that it is dangerous to invest this money in my country to avoid suspicious, and due to market instability coupled with economic and political instability facing my country that is why I want to invest in abroad. For your foreign assistance myself and my mother have agreed to offer you 35% of the total amount of the money.

We have all the vital documents covering the deposit which I can send to you through fax on request after all the necessary agreement have been made by our family lawyer. NOTE: I have never disclosed this to any person apart from you, so you have to keep this very, very confidential. Send me your private phone and fax for more informations. Thanks , you can reply me on this mail evinaschurbaji0@yahoo.com.my


Kind regards
Evina Schurbaji

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