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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • pin00@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Bala William" <pin00@sify.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:00:34 -1200
Subject: FROM:Mr Bala William

FROM:Mr Bala William
AUDITOR GENERAL
First National Bank
6th floor, 1 First Place
Cnr Simmonds & Pritchard Street
Johannesburg, Gauteng
South Africa

DEAR,

RE:TRANSFER OF USD168,559,000.00 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT.

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 private, and it should be treated in
strict confidence.

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 USD168,559,000.00{ One hundred and
sixty eight million five hundred and fifty nine thousand U.S
dollar Only } from our bank here in South Africa. The fund
for transfer is of clean origin. The owner of the fund 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 USD168,559,000.00

I want to transfer this money into your account as the
foreign beneficiary of the fund. I know that this letter
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.

Waiting to hear from and thanks for anticipated reply to my
private E-mail: pin00@sify.com

Let me hear from you.

Regards,
Mr Bala William

Tel: 87-47 - 63 64 - 8-3 13
Fax: 87-47 - 63 64 - 8-3 14
Email: pin00@sify.com



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