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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)
  • "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 next of kin 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.
  • davidahmed2@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "donpm" <donpm@myway.com>
Reply-To: davidahmed2@yahoo.es
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:41:49 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Honest Sincerity


Dear Friend,I hereby contact you personally,I know that this letter may come to you as a big surprise,this is because we have neither known or met before.I am Mr David Ahmed,the Reginal computing auditor of UNION INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC,Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe.I contact you with genuine sincerity rather than greed for what I percive would have been the desire of our late client before his life was caught short by this plane diaster.I therefore wish to contact you for the opportunity of transferring the left over funds US$49,500,000.00 (Fourty-Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars of one of my bank deceased client who died in the Pan American boeing 747 which crashed in Lockerbie on the 21st December 1998You can confirm the genuine of the lockerbie plane crash and the death of the deceasedchecking on the lockerbie plane crash or by clicking on the below
websites:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4386464.stmhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-1859752,00.htmlhttp://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1855852005http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/news/tm_objectid=16383650%26method=full%26siteid=66633-name_page.htmlhttp://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200405/cmhansrd/cm050119/halltext/50119h02.htm#50119h02_head0http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsd%5F772000/772784.stmThe reason for contacting you is to present you as the next of kin to the deceased client so that we can claim this money.If we do not claim this fund,it will be forfeited to the government of Sao Tome and Principe and to the hands of those corrupt people in government and my late client I know, will not like it even in death.He will rather prefer someone who will use it to better himself and the poor and needy plus charity.The owner of this account is late Mr. Daniel B.Jones, an American, and a petroleum geologist by
profession,an oil and alied contractor with the Petroleum Corporation of Sao Tome and Principe. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total amount, 50% is for me and my family,while 10% will be for any contingency expenses that will be incured by both of us. I look forward to your earliest reply through my private box: davidahmed2@yahoo.es Yours sincerely,Mr David Ahmed

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