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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:
  • "dear friend" (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.
  • mohd_abbasfamily@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: FATIMA ABBAS <fatimaabbas66@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 10:04:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE


Dear friend,
I pray this letter will touches you to be of help to my deplorable
condition which the latest crisis around our region has caused. I am Fatima Abbas Mohamed
who until the last couple of months lived happily with my husband
and two kids in the region of tyre in Lebanon. My husband and two
daughters were killed on the same day during the Israeli raid on that region
leaving me to face the world alone without love and shelter for a
problem that we had no hand in, am unstable

emotionally and live at the mercy of those who can do little or nothing
to salvage my present condition. Our home and property were destroyed
and left in rubbles. This is a passionate plea to your conscience in
assisting me to live a life again though it can never be the same when at
twenty eight I have been turned into a helpless widow.
My late husband was a major shareholder in what used to be the biggest
construction company in that region and we had planned to relocate to
Europe to start a new life and live happily with our two daughters
before the worst happened. Due to the stringent financial laws of our
country and the need to stabilize the economy of the nation after the
Syrian occupation, Before the death of my husband,he already deposited the sum of four million five hundred thousound united states dollars($4.5m USD) in a finance house in South-East Asia..The money
had been stored as a bonded package for security reasons. All I seek is a kind heart to
assist me in securing these funds and move it out of finance house to your country for proper investment so
that i will be able to live the rest of my miserable life in relative
calm. I can not travel out for now and no means to secure the package
unless your sincere assistance comes in. I do hope to relocate when the
funds are secured as I can not
even at this moment make up for the money needed to secure a new
international passport let alone securing a visa. Should your heart tell you to
assist a widow, do get across to me via my email as telecommunication in
this area is zero. I anticipate your honest response. I am willing to part 20%
of
the funds to you for your effort.and 5% will be mappe out for any expenses made on the course of transfering the money.. I am dazed and confused,You can also contact me with my family email adress mohd_abbasfamily@yahoo.com for easy and urgent response.. please assist me.
Blessings.
Fatima Abbas Mohamed


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