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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • huda23@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: huda alaazawi <hudaalazawi2201@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <huda23@myway.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:11:01 +0100
Subject: invetment



Dear Respected, In my quest for trustworthy and reliable person who can assist me to handle this great business opportunity that is at my disposal, I decided to search, and I privately made a confidential search where I got your esteemed contact. I choose to propose this to you, with the believe that you will run to my assistance and at last I will settle in your country. My name is Mrs.Huda Alazawi Dada, wife of late Salim El Dada of Iraq.. Last year, I lost my husband Nasim and three children - Husam, 15 years old , Wasim, 12 years old and Merna, 6years old, when a Combatant Military Tank Shelled our car as my family attempted to flee from heavy fighting in Baghdad. Though my late husband was into crude oil and contracts, but I did not have the knowledge that he moved huge amount of funds in cash out side our country untill his death. This came as a shock to me after his death and I have decided to have this funds invested immediately, hence I sincerely propose to you to render me your most needed assistance in this regard. Before my husband and my Children was killed, he Deposited the sum of euro 300 million ( three hundred million euro) with a Security & Finance company in Europe. All I need from you now is to receive the Fund as my husband business Associate and place it into any Lucrative Investment of your choice in your country or any country of your choice. I am proposing a 20% to you for your assistance and the use of your banking facilities. Above all, I solicit your trust in this transaction and will not want you to betray me at the end as this is all I have left now. For now I am working with little salary to compare with my former position, working with grief.Kindly get back to me via my below e-mail huda23@myway.com Detail informations will be send to you when I get your reply. Hoping that you will be of great assistance to me. Yours truly,Mrs. Huda Alazawi Dada
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