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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:
  • "i will like you to " (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Betty Campbell <bet00201@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <bettycampbell12@terramail.com.sv>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:39:17 +0000
Subject: Hello



Good day,
I got your contact from my search for a reliable, trust,worthy and competent business manager/hard working person who will be willing and able to develop his or her businesses/profession to a greater height and who also can be trusted to be my friend to assist me and help me out of a problem facing me, which I believed you could be trusted and be worthy to be that friend that can help me.
I am Betty Campbell, 25 years old girl from Barbados, which I and my family (my mother who died four years ago here in London, Father and myself) immigrated to London - United Kingdom 21 years ago. I have diploma in accounting and I also worked in my father trading company here in London called Campbell Trading Enterprises as an accounting officer. A year later after the death of my mother, my father got married to a British lady who made life miserable for me up to a certain circumstances that made me to developed the interest in establishing a business investment outside London - U.K. without my step mother or any one close to her knowing about it. Hence I contacted you for friendship and business relationship.
The fund in question proposed for this project is US$7.8million (Seven Million, Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only), which I will like you to receive it on my behalf and to invest it in your business or in any business that you think will be profitable in your country.
Please let me know more about yourself and also let me know if you can be able to receive the money for me and invest it on a good and profitable business in your country without exposing me, so as to give you all the necessary documents and details needed to make the money transferred to you. Please write back if only you know you are capable enough to execute this project in your country.
Please for the sake of confidentiality and utmost secrecy this deal required, kindly reply me back through my confidential email address: bettycampbell12@terramail.com.sv
Yours faithfully, Betty Campbell.
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