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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:
  • "hundred thousand us 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)
• 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.
  • jaron_abbas001@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Jaron Abbas <jaronabbas9001@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <jaron_abbas001@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 17:40:32 +0100
Subject: HUMANITARIAN CALL




Hello, Compliments of the day to you and your family. I am very sorry to embarrass you with this email as I did not mean to intrude in your privacy if not for the peculiar situation I have found myself. I have contacted you because of your resume as I believe you have what it takes to carry out the request I seek of you.
I am currently suffering from a terminal disease called Hepatitis C and my doctors have informed me that I have a few months to live and I want to try and do something special with my life now that the end is near. I do not mean to make you feel bad or feel sorry for me but I believe I can make an impact in this world before I pass on as I am now a born again Christian.
Before I was diagnosed with the disease I was a very successful businessman who made a lot of money but also lived a very rough life filled with too much lust for women and more money. In the course of my illness my family members have bled me dry of nearly all my possessions and abandoned me to my fate.
I presently have no friend or family as I am all alone in this hospital. Luckily I have some money totaling two million five hundred thousand us dollars that I had stashed away in a finance facility somewhere in Europe and I would be willing to donate all of it to charity. All I want is for a foundation to be set up in my name so I would always be remembered for my good deeds in life after I pass on. If you are willing to assist you would get a handsome percentage of the money and also a place in heaven as God would abundantly reward you.
Please get back to me ASAP so I can give you more details.
Contact me on: jaron_abbas001@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks and God bless you.
Jaron Abbas

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