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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 security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "million united states dollars" (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 "dying merchant" 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.
  • jamil_net02@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "robhj" <robhj@manx.net>
Reply-To: jamil_net02@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:56:00 +0100
Subject: DEAR FRIEND!!

DEAR BELOVED.

As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me,
because, I believe everyone will die someday. My name is
MARK JAMIL a merchant in Tunisia and Dubai. I have been
diagnosed with Esophageal cancer. It has defiled all forms
of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a
few months to live, according to medical experts.

Now that God has called me, I have willed and given
most of my property and assets to my immediate and extended
family members as well as a few close friends. I want God to
be merciful to me and accept my soul, I have decided to give
also to charity organizations,as I want this to be one of the
last good deeds I do on earth. So far, I have distributed money
to some charity organizations in the U.A.E, Algeria, Malaysia and
some countries in Africa. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly,
I cannot do this myself anymore.

I once asked members of my family to close one of my accounts and
distribute the money, which I have there to charity organization
in Bulgaria and Pakistan; they refused and kept the money to
themselves. Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not
to be contented with what I have left for them. The last of my
money which no one knows of is the huge cash deposit of Eleven
Million United States Dollars $11,000,000,00 that I have with a
Security Company abroad.

I will want you to help me collect this deposit and dispatched it
to charity organizations. I have set aside 10% for you, your time
and also any expenses incurred during this assignment. God be with you.

Kindly reply me on my confidential email account: jamil_net02@yahoo.co.uk

God bless you greatly as you do.

Regards,

MARK JAMIL.

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