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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • tanwongt1@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Tan Wong" <jenni@reedtribe.org>
Reply-To: tanwongt1@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:33:52 -0800
Subject: From Tan Wong(Business Proposal)

FROM: TAN WONG
(tanwongt1@yahoo.com.hk)

I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you that will
be of great benefit for both of us.It involves a deceased client of my bank
who deposited the sum of $24,500.000.00 only in my branch and the client
was reported dead along with his family due to war crisis involving America
and Iraq.My bank have carried out serious search to locate his heir or next
of kin since his death but to no avail and the client confided in me the
last time he visited my bank that i alone knew of this said funds and no
next of kin was indicatede in the official papers he used in depositing
the funds in my bank,so i am proposing to you as a foreigner to come and
lay claim to it in order for the funds to be shared between me and you because
i can not apply as the next of kin being a staff of the bank because my
bank will know is from me,i will provide you with all the necessary document
to put you as the next of kin with the help of my attorney and also assist
you with all the necessary assistance needed in making you the beneficiary.


I will give you more details as regards this transaction as soon as you
notify me of your interest. I hope to read from you. Awaiting your urgent
reply via my email address:tanwongt1@yahoo.com.hk

Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Mr. Tan Wong.

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