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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • munawar_pji1001@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: punjabi punjabi <m_punjabi11@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <munawar_pji1001@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:19:03 +0100
Subject: Assalam-o-alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Barakatuh



Assalam-o-alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Barakatuh
My Brother in Islam: I am contacting you based on trust and wish that you will give me back the trust I have given to you. I am not looking for anything else but for someone with the fear of Allah and one who understands the spiritual implications of handling money meant for the Building/Construction of Allah's House of Worship(MOSQUE). I am Dr PUNJABI .M. MOHAMMED a Doctor here in Geneve Switzerland and I have an old man with a long time brain cancer problem. His name is Abdulhussein Kattoun and 72 years old man from Iraq .

He Run a Currency Trading Company and Money Exchange Burea in Baghdad and Switzerland,during one of the recent Bomb Explosion in Baghdad his Office/House Building was razed to Nothing leaving his wife,his only Son dead and another (2) office workers dead (2) Deeply injured. As at the moment Abdulhussein Kattoun may not live for more than one month. He has gone for his first major operation and survived it and in showing appreciation to Allah for the survival in the operation he now decide to give part of his wealth for the Construction of a MOSQUE on his name in any part of the ARAB LAND and you name it After Him(Abdulhussein Kattoun). The reason of making this Contact to you is to be in position to collect $10.900,000,00 in a mettallic box kept with a Diplomat in MALAYSIA uptill now the Diplomat has no idea of the real content,for security reasons according to Mr Abdulhussein Kattoun . He asked me to contact you to know if you are a Devoted Moslem Brother, He want to know if you can be trusted in this Project, so that he can request give you the contact detail of the Diplomat in MALAYSIA now Mr Abdulhussein Kattoun is still alive,he will send Letter of Authourisation via email to the Diplomatic office in MALAYSIA to deliver to you on your arrival to MALAYSIA or Deliver to your destination address as the Receiver/Beneficiary of the Deposited package.
EMAIL; munawar_pji1001@yahoo.co.uk
I await your urgent reply. Yours Faithfully,Dr PUNJABI .M. MOHAMMEDGeneve SwitzerlandFor: Abdulhussein Kattoun
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