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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)
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • aziz.kharusi001@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MR.AZIZ KHARUSI. <aziz_kharusi@myway.com>
Reply-To: aziz.kharusi001@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:44:04 +0200
Subject: RESPOND URGENT FOR OUR BENEFIT


NATIONAL BANK OF DUBAI {NBD}
EMIRATES TOWERS SHOPPING BOULERARD, M. FLOOR, SHEIKH ZAYED ROAD DUBAI UNITED =
ARAB EMIRATES
FROM: AZIZ KHARUSI
Dear Friend,
I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise. I am the bill and =
exchange manager NATIONAL BANK OF DUBAI
I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am =
about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families. I need =
your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($25.6) MILLION immediately =
to your account. The money has been dormant for years in our Bank here =
without any body coming for it.
I want to release the money to you as the nearest person to
our deceased customer(the owner of the account)who died a long with his =
supposed next of kin in an air crash since July 2000.I don't want the money =
to go into our Bank treasury as an abandoned fund. So this is the reason why =
I contacted you, so that I will release the money to you as the nearest =
person to the deceased customer.
Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete if =
you are not interested
Upon receipt of your reply on this email address aziz.kharusi001@yahoo.com I =
will send you full details on how the business will be executed and also note =
that you will have 25% of the above mentioned sum if you agree to transact =
the business with me while 10% will be set outside for any expenses that may =
occur during the transaction
Thanks and hoping to hear from you
MR.AZIZ KHARUSI.

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