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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:
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "hundred thousand 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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "FRANK EDWIN" <frank-edwin04@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: frankedwin_10@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:48:49 +0100
Subject: Hello I was inspired to contact you my dear.

Dear Gabriela,

Please do not fell embarrassed, I am a bit skeptical considering my position in the bank. Please keep this secret within you; with my position in the bank I assure you everything will go successful. This letter is important and very confidential. I have urgent transaction to make with you which involves a huge sum of money. I am Frank Edwin of (FBN MERCHANT BANKERS NIGERIA LIMITED); I am Account Officer to Saddam Hussein; Saddam who has been described as an ex-dictator has a fixed secret deposit account in my branch which I will not disclose yet because it is a coded account. He deposited this fund for investment purpose which I knew was for execution of terrorism.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6117910.stm?ls

Get in touch with me directly for more secret details and to enable us discuss further in pulling out this fund amount USD$5.5m(five million five hundred thousand united states dollars). I am in London for a summit but I will be back to my country soonest so I decided to contact you. Remember I have been watching this fund with keen interest ever since till now he has been sentenced to death by hanging by Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad on Sunday sentenced a combative Saddam Hussein and two other defendants to death by hanging for a brutal crackdown in the Shiite town of Dujail .

I foresee and anticipate your mail soon with the following contact information.
They are as follows:
(1) Your full name
(2) Your residential address
(3) Your mobile telephone number.

Mr. Frank Edwin
FBN (Merchant Banks) Limited

 

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