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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:
  • "30% for you " (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)
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "dying merchant" 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.
  • sgt.j_stewart22@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "SGT. JAME STEWART" <sgt.j_stewart22@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:26:11 +0000
Subject:

Compliment,

I hope my email meets you well. My name is Sgt .James Clayton jr. I am
in the Engineering military unit
here in Baghdad in Iraq , with Oesophageal cancer which has defiled all
forms of medical treatment, and
right now I have only about a few weeks/months to live, according to
medical experts. My late 2

colleagues who died in a bomb blast did find a huge sum of
$25 Million USD in Baghdad
neighbourhood, you can check out the story in this site (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm)
but we have successfully moved it out of the country to Europe via a
diplomatic courier service. I am
contacting you because i want you to help with claiming of this
money and help me distribute the money
to charity organizations and homeless people.

I feel distributing the funds would be a way to appease the LORD and
also want God to be merciful to
me and my late friends and also accept our souls ,because we have
killed so many in the war, but we
where only serving our country. I have decided to give this sum 0f $25
Million USD to charity
organizations, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on
earth.

I will want you to help me collect this consignment and dispatched it
to charity organizations like i have
said earlier. I have set aside 30% for you and your time. The most
important thing is, can I TRUST you Once the funds get to you?, and also would you distribute the rest
70% to charity organizations?.

Your own duty is to contact the security company on how the
consignment can be
released and sent down to your home address or deposited to your bank.
If you are interested to help the less priviledged I will furnish you with more details. Send to me all your full information
such as telephone,mobile,fax,country,occupation and a copy of your ID (send by attachment) e.t.c.
The whole process is simple and we must keep a low profile at all
times because if the authorities are aware of this funds, it would be seized and used for purchasing ammunitions and irrelevant accessories,whereby we have so many sick, homeless kids dying with hunger..

I am awaiting your urgent response on my private email address:
sgt.j_stewart22@yahoo.co.in

IN GOD WE TRUST!!!!
Regards.

SGT .JAMES STEWART

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