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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
• 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.
  • bellatifat@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Latifat Bello" <bellatifat@myway.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:09:07 +0700
Subject: JOINT VENTURE INVESTMENT PROPOSAL

Dear friend,

My name is Latifat Bello, 25 years old, a wife to a late Palestinian husband with three kids who also died on an incident raid by the Israeli militants, now I am left alone without a family. As you know, the dispute between Palestine and Israel has cursed a lot of damages to the innocents residing at the Gaza city as I count myself as number one. With great tears in my eyes calling for a help from the present world we are in it today to help me pray for the innocents that has gone through this unbearable dispute.

There were no immediate claims of responsibility issued for the shootings, and the source from Hamas said the fatality may have been the result of a clan feud. More than 90 Palestinians were killed in factional violence calmed by a deal reached in Saudi Arabia last month who are the people responsible for all this.

My husband was a guard in the Palestinian government peacekeeper but today he's no more, leaving me with nothing left untill I came across his documents in a file to know that he deposited a huge amount of money in a security firm in Malaysia . Well I have relocated myself to Malaysia where I reckon is better for me to start my life again. My husband left
$8.9m with my name as the next of kin.

Really I do not know what to do with this money, that's why I am calling for a guidance to see me through that this money is useful. The firm asked for some vital documents which are intact with me to enable convey the fund to any country of my choice. Please if you have an interest to help for this issue, I will be glad to release 20% of this fund to you as a
consignee. You are the only person I contacted for this transaction and will hope to get
your reply ASAP.

kindly contact me via my Private email: bellatifat@myway.com
I wait for your urgent response.

Yours truly
latifat Bello

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