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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "diplomatic immunity"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "the consignment " (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)
  • "million 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)
  • "diplomatic immunity" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "the 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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: morsoon abdo <m_abdo1100@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: mansoor_abdo1@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:01:22 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: FROM MANSOOR ABDOLRAHMAN


FROM MANSOOR ABDOLRAHMAN

Dearest,

I am an average-aged young man of 40 years of age, an Indian of Iranian origin. I lived in Beirut, Lebanon where I owned a flourishing currency trading company (Bureau de Change), before the Israeli air strike in Beirut that razed my office building to void and caused my business a tremendous setback after killing a few staff including Alas, my wife and pretty daughter, Nadia.

The reason I am contacting you is to find out if I can invest my money in your line of business, since It has become necessary and inevitable for me to diversify the scope of my investment and leave Beirut for a more stable business climate like your country; knowing that I can not guarantee the security of life and property over there, especially now that most of my creditors(i.e,people to whom I am indebted.) believe I was in the office the day my office complex was razed down and so think I am dead by now.

Meanwhile I am still receiving treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of a Plastic Surgery Hospital in London England where I was flown to by a Doctor from Cyprus, (you know all the victims were initially evacuated to Cyprus Greece). I did not want to be found among the casualties & survivors back in Cyprus for obvious security reasons of the $35 Million dollars in my Safe Deposit Box. I entrusted the $35 Million dollars to a DIPLOMATIC SECURTY COMPANY ORG.

That can deliver the consignment to any destination in your country without any hiccups, since the Diplomat can fly the money to your country without screening or the money being detected by any currency detecting machine at your Local Airport, because of the special packaging and the privileges, i.e. diplomatic immunity etc, he will be accorded at your local airport when he arrives.

I may have to be in the hospital for some time now because of the burns, shock and possible internal injury I sustained from the bomb blast. Please let me know urgently if you can assist me claim the consignment and receive it from the diplomat, because he does not know that the box contains physical cash and not the gem stones/Artefacts I declared to him. So let me have your direct phone number so we can negotiate on what you will take as your percentage of the total sum I shall give to you for assisting me to see this deal goes through and to enable the Diplomat contact you and deliver the Safe Deposit Box to you as soon as he arrives.

I await your response.

Best regards.

MANSOOR ABDOLRAHMAN


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