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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:
  • "million us 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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "jimmyy o clarke" <jimmyyclarke@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 02:36:43 +0700
Subject: uRGENT TRANSACTION / BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Dear Sir,
My name mrs jimmyy o clarke, from Pretoria. I am the Manager of a Financial Security Company here in Thailand. I have the pleasure of writing this letter to you in strict confidence, and I decided to contact you after due consideration believing that you will not disappoint me over this project.
I have been working with this Company for over ten [10] years. Within this period, I have watched with meticulous precision how African Heads of State and Government Functionaries have been using our company to move Sums of Money USD$, Pounds Sterling, French Francs (Cash) to their Foreign Partners. They deposit these funds with us and some times they bring Consignments of Cash and secretly declare the Contents as Jewelries, Gold, Diamonds, Precious Stones, Family Treasures and Documents Etc.
These people have hundreds of Consignments/funds Deposited with us, and they send them out to their foreign Partners/friends who claim most of these Consignments/funds. A lot of them have been here Unclaimed for over eight [8] years and nobody will ever come for them because most of the Depositors are dead. The funds are deposited with several names and codes.
I am contacting you to solicit your cooperation to recover some of this wealth they left behind, and my primary interest now is the sum of Eleven Million US Dollars [US$11,000,000.00], which the deposit certificate is in my possession. My idea here is that the two of us will share this US$11.0m, in any agreed ratio, because I need you to claim the fund. I have all the necessary legal documents that will be used to back up the claim of the money and no questions, or suspicions will be raised anywhere, I therefore earnestly solicit your honest/very sincere cooperation in this matter.
I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement, which will not involve any breach of the international/local laws. It is 100% risk free, and there will be no problem forever as a result of this transaction. I look forward to receiving your urgent/positive response to this offer, through my e-mail address.

Yours Truly
jimmyy o clarke

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