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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "MISS ATI MAYOO" <atimayoo@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: atimayoo@inmail24.com
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:55:07 +0800
Subject: RE:

Dear Sir/madam, 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 that
we don't known each other before. I wish to use this opportunity introduce myself to you. I am Ati Mayoo, from Indonesia. I write you with my desire to invest in your country. I am the only surviving daughter of my parents. My late father Mr. Omor Abdullah was one of the richest Investor in my country Indonesia. But now i am suffering some where alone as my family was among the Tsunami crisis victims. I am a survival because i visited Jakarta the period of these incidents.
When my father was alive, he revealed to me about the fund deposit which he had in a financial institute here in Malaysia. Presently, i am here in Malaysia under the UNHCR, but with the intention to notify the financial institute about my inheritance. I reside in the refugee camp here. Therefore I will want you to assist retrieve my inheritance for any good investment in your country. But you must assure me of your trust worthiness and sincererity before we continue, as this inheritance fund is I’m banking all my future hope. I thought it will be dangerous to-invest this fund in my country Indonesia, due to economic and political instability facing my country as at the moment. So want to invest it abroad. For your foreign assistance, i have agreed to offer you 20% of the total amount of the money. I have all the vital documents covering the deposit, which I can send to you on request. NOTE: I have never disclosed this to any person apart from you. Please you have to kee
p this very confidential. We shall talk more as soon as i hear from you. Thanks

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