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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "into your nominated bank account" (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)
  • "urgent assistance" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a "dying widow" 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.
  • k.azeem_hb1@yahoo.dk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: job william <jobwilliam12@web.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:30:58 +0200
Subject: MAGRET H.B KAZEEM


IAM CONTACTING YOU WITH ALL DUE RESPECT SIR AND NEVER YOU ENTERTAIN ANY FEAR IN THIS TRANSACTION, FOR THIS IS REAL AND GENUINE. ALL I NEED IS HONESTY AND YOUR CAPABILITY TO HANDLE MY FAMILY FUND AND INVEST IT JOINTLY IN YOUR COUNTRY AS PARTNERS.

Dear Partner,

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics. I sincerely ask for forgiveness for i know this may seem like a complete intrusion to your privacy but right about now this is my option of communication.

This note might seem strange or probably untrue considering the amount of junk mails we receive daily, but i believe this is still the most genuine way of contacting a true character.

I will introduce myself as Mrs. Magret H.B. Kazeem. I am marr ied to Dr. Idris Kazeem Barker who was formerly an assistant to the secretary general of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries "OPEC". He has worked with this organization for nine years before he died in the year 2003, as a result of our only son's brutal murder in Saudi Arabia by unknown gun men. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Since his death I decided never to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which my culture is against.

However, the most painful and annoying part of it is that my husband's relatives has been on my neck. They said I was behind my husband death which is never true. They sent me packing and threw me out of my matrimonial home which I have suffered for with my late husband for so many years. I have nowhere to go to, so I decided to go back to my motherland to stay with my family to get myself organised and carter for my children.

Before husband died, he made me to understa n d that he deposited the sum of $32 million (Thirty two Million U.S. Dollars) when he was still the secretary of OPEC with a finance house in oversea. Please, I hereby request for your urgent assistance to help my family in investing the money as a partnership investment with your company or any investment that both of us will benefit from it. Presently, this money is still under the safe keeping of the finance house in oversea. I dont want my husbands relatives to know about this development.

Please tell me in confidence, can you handle it? Can you invest this huge amount of money successfully on behalf of my family? Have you ever handled such amount of money before? How old are you? Please advise most urgently.

In a short while, I will arrange a meeting with you and my eldest daughter Fatima who is studying in Europe and she will accompany you to the finance house office in Europe where the investment fund is deposited by her late father for e a sy claim and quick transfer.

My Eldest daughter will be assisting me to facilitate this transaction and both of you will make arrangements to have this funds transferred through a nominated joint account which both of you will open for the money transfer. You will need to meet with her in Europe as soon as possible.

I will issue you a letter of authority that will empower you as the original-beneficiary of this fund with other related documents. Also, I will forward to you my personal information for recognition and trust before you proceed contact with the Finance house in Oversea, so that they will contact you as the beneficiary of this fund before going their with my daughter to claim the fund /transfering the fund into your nominated Bank Account in your country.

Yours in Sincerely,
Mrs. Magret H.B. Kazeem.
E-Mail: k.azeem_hb1@yahoo.dk [mailto:k.azeem_hb1@yahoo.dk]




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