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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)
  • "million 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: "Kate Robertson" <kaet20077@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kaet_45@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:50:26 +0100
Subject: Your kind assistance please

Strict Confidential.

I am highly delighted in being in contact with you.

I am Mrs.Kate Ben Robertson of zimbabwe,the wife,to the late minority
right activist/environmentalist and leader of the movement for the survival
of farmers in zimbabwe.Mr.Ben Robertson,who was killed during the last war
against farmers in zimbabwe from the support of our president Robert Mugabe
to claim all the white owned farms to his party members and his followers,he
ordered all white farmers to surrender all their farms to his party members
and followers.

My husband is one of the best farmers in our country and because he did
not support Mugabe's ideas,Mugabe's supporters invaded my husband's farm and
burnt everything in the farm.Killing my husband made away with alot of items
in my husband's farm and seized his properties.Before his death,my husband
had deposited in the security company,the sum of U.S $26million(Twenty six
million united states dollars).

Due to the hostilities,harrassment and arrest being visited on the family
by the government and it's agents.I am therefore aking for your kind
understanding and assistance in the transfer process since the government
have been unbearable for us to live.The fund as directed by my husband in
his will shall be directed into meaningful and profitable investment in your
country.

Due to the amount of scam present in the world today,one find it difficult
to solicit for help via the internet and get one,but dear friend,please find
it somewhere in your heart and assist me.
As a young widow,with two(2) children to look after,you will need to give me
sufficient assurance and guarantee that you will not sit on the fund when it
is finally credited into your account.I am sincerely optimistic you will
not betray the trust and confidence which I was made to repose in you
considering the circumstances in which my husband was brutally killed.

I await your earliest reply.

Thanks.
Best Regards.
Mrs.Kate Ben Robertson.

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