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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:
  • "a diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist 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.
  • viviansalem26@mail.md (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "viviansam26" <viviansam26@terra.com.mx>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 17:21:42 -0600
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANT


Dear Sir\Madam,

My name is Mrs Vivian Salem , wife of late Salem Nasim
in Iraq,
One year ago, I lost my husband Nasim and three children -
Husam, 15 years old , Wasim, 12 years old and Merna, 6years old, this
happened when a Combatant Military Tank Shelled our car as my family
attempted to flee heavy fighting in Baghdad, View the Website below for
detail Story of how I lost my family .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/04/vivians_story/html/1.stm

Before my
husband and my Children was killed, he Deposited the sum of $29.5
million ( Twentynine Million five hundred thousand Dollars ) with a
Security & Finance company in Baghdad. I had contacted a Diplomat who
was attached to the United Nation Peace keeping forces in Baghdad and
had assured me of assisting me to move the Boxes through Diplomatic
Cargo to anywhere i want, ONLY ,if I had a PARTNER to receive it on my
behalf .
All I need from you is to receive the Fund as my husband a
business Associates and Invest the fund into any Lucrative Investment
in your country .
I will renumerate you with 40 % at the end,but most
of all is that I solicit your trust in this transaction and will not
want you to betray me at the end
Please in your reply , include your
Mobile number ,Home telephone number and your residential or company
address for easy Communication.
All correspondence should be directed
to my private Email; viviansalem26@mail.md
Thank you,
MRS VIVIAN SALEM

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