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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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)
• This email message is a next of kin 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.
  • wongwonglady@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: serena wong <seswong8@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:00:54 +0200
Subject: Business proposal.



Dear Sir/madam,
I am a staff of one of the leading banks in Hong Kong, I am writing asking for your indulgence in re-profiling funds, which we want to keep under your supervision. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this fund totaling ($20,500,000) cannot be approved to a local Bank here in Hong Kong, because the funds are in US Dollars and the owner of this account is Aloysius Han, and he died since 2000 in an air crash along with his wife & Daughter on 31/01/2000 in an Alaska Airlines Flight 261 with other passengers on board. You can confirm from this
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
I am proposing 30% for you for your assistance while my colleagues and I receive 60% and 10% earmark for purposes of taxation in your country and mine.
Please if you are interested kindly forward to me the following information stated below:
(1) Your direct telephone number(2) Your direct fax number(3) Your Full Names(4) Your age(5) Your Country of Origin(6) Your Residential Address
All that is required from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Your reply should indicate your willingness in assisting us. And I will send you all the detailed information and documents that you will need to process an application for the claims of the funds.
You can write your response to my private email account: wongwonglady@yahoo.com.hk
I look forward towards a good business relationship with you.
Regards,Mrs. Serena Wong

I AWAIT YOUR RESPONSE


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