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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "trunk box" (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)
  • "a diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • abdulhamed1975@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Abdul Hameed <abdulhammed7@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <abdulhamed1975@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:33:07 +0200
Subject: i am waiting for your reply inshallah



Greetings !Well, I am a free citizen of Gujranwala, the province of Punjab, Pakistan, My name is Abdul Hameed. I decided to contact you via you email address as it is the fastest way to hear back from you, However, I apologize if this is not acceptable to you.I worked for a formal Minister in my country; Ms. Zilla Huma Usman, before she was appointed Minister Social Welfare, she worked secretly as investment manager for General Musharraf. Her sudden death on February of this year 2007 in our home town Gujranwala was provoked by her refusal to wear veil while in public place and also her fight against Islamic Sharia laws in Pakistan. (inshallah, her soul will rest in peace)


In November 2006, i and Zilla together with a diplomat move out from Pakistan, a metallic trunk box which contained 10.million dollar in cash, she was to use this money for opening of her fashion and diamond shop abroad but because of her appointment that was to come, she decided that i will leave Pakistan with her and this money was moved out with the help of a diplomat who brought the box here because it will implicate her if she transfer the money out through her bank account. This was how we brought the box here in Ivory Coast where she deposited it with a Security Company here and the box was registered on her name and was declared as containing confidential house document's because she did not want the company to know that this box is contained money as she was to protect her image too, and then she rented a house for me here and asked me to stay until she finished making arrangement to move the money to another destination.


Please, you have to understand that the decision i took now to entrusts this opportunity into your hands is as a result of good faith partnership and proper investment of this fund to the benefit of both of us and it should not get to another person's ear. This is not a religion or ethnic matter and i did not belong to any fanatic religion or terrorist or drug group, i am a free citizen and i saw this as an opportunity to be rewarded for all my labors, i have worked for Zilla's family for more than 13 years and they have treated me bad with not benefit and since this has happen, i am going to move this money to start a new life. Please, all i want for us is to do this business and share the money 50 / 50% without much argument. If you are confidence enough to make this deal with me, then send soonest and also to enable me reply to your letter urgently, send a copy of your email to my primary address: abdulhamed1975@gmail.com

Allah hafiz.
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