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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "Ephraim Mccabe" <ephraim_mccabe33@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ephraim_mccabe@excite.com
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:12:13 +0200
Subject: HEAR FROM YOU URGENTLY

FROM: Mr.Ephraim Mccabe,
AUDITOR GENERAL
First National Bank 6th floor,
1 First Place Cnr
Simmonds & Pritchard Street,
Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa.

Attn:

RE:TRANSFER OF USD168,559,000.00 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT.

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business. I choose to
reach you through {Internet} because it still remains the fastest medium of
communication. However, this correspondence is private, and it should be
treated in strict confidence.

My name is Mr.Ephraim Mccabe, and I will firstly like to assure you that
this transaction is 100% risk and trouble free to bothparties. In order to
transfer out USD168,559,000.00{ One hundred and sixty eight million five
hundred and fifty nine thousand U.S dollar Only } from our bank here in
South Africa. The fund for transfer is from clean origin. The owner of the
fund is a foreigner, a program leader who was believed to acquire the fund
through his secret Crude Oil deal with the Former IRAQI government.

The deceased died with all the members of his family in an auto-accident in
June 23, 1999 without a WILL. The amount involved is USD168,559,000.00 I
want to transfer this money into your account as the foreign beneficiary of
the funds.

I CONTACT YOU BELIEVING THAT YOU WILL NOT LET ME DOWN ONCE THE FUND GOES
INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.

Hear from you,
Regards,
Mr.Ephraim Mccabe.

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