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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "security company in holland" (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "markpeterson@terra.es" <markpeterson@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:27:11 +0100 (MET)
Subject: I await your urgent response.



Dear friend,

My names are mark peters. I am a 65 years old man. I am British
living inDubai (united Arab emirate). I am a merchant and owned two businesses
in Dubai.I am married with two children. my wife and two children died in a car
accident six years ago. Before this happened my business and concern for making
money was all I lived for. I never really cared about other values in life.

But since the loss of my family, i have found a new desire to assist
helpless families.I have been helping orphans in orphanage/ motherless homes. i
have donated some money to orphans in Sudan, south Africa, Cameroon, brazil,
Spain,Austria, Germany and some Asian countries.

Before I became ill, I kept some money, twelve and a half million
dollars $12.5million) to be precise in a long term deposit account in a
security company in Holland. Presently, I am in a hospital. my doctors told me i
have prostrate cancer that I have a few months to live. it is my last wish
to see this money distributed to charity organizations. Because so much of my
wealth has been plundered by relatives and friends since my illness, I cannot
live with the agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them.


Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me collect the deposit
from the security company in Holland and distribute it amongst charity
organizations. Use your judgment to distribute the money and keep 10% of it to
yourself. Feel free to reimburse yourself when you have the money for any cost
you incurduring the process of collecting and distributing the money to charity
organizations.

May the good Lord bless you and your family?

I await your urgent response.
Sincerely,
Mark Peters.










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