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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united states 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)
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • azeezat_ahmed3@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • eezat_ahmed3@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Azeezat Ahmed" <azeezat@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: azeezat_ahmed3@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 10:22:54 -0700
Subject: Dear Beloved One,


Dear Beloved One,

I presume this letter will come to you as a surprise, but as things unfold,
we will know each other better and how I got your contact. I am MRS.Azeezat
Ahmed, the wife of the Managing Director and Chief Executive, one of the
leading oil companies. I am very sure that you will be of a good assistance
after carefully reading my letter. For many years of marriage w between me
and my husband, I have t given birth to a male child, and this has really
troubled my husband.

This is as a result of so much respect attached to local Tradition Culture
and Custom in there community. And now my husband is dead Ghastly Auto
Crash, In short to be sincere and honest with you, with the present
situation of things now, I am being threatened daily by my husband family to
get me out from the house. Before the sudden death of my beloved husband,
and father of my two daughters, my late husband intended to establish a
business in the United States of America and London with the sum of$18.5
million United States dollars, but unfortunately he died before this
proposed venture. Following his death, his family members insisted that I am
not entitled to his property (Assets and money) since I am a woman and my
offspring's all girls as I do t have a male child for my husband. Well,
according to some barbaric traditional laws here in Nigeria (Africa) which
doesn't permit a woman to inherit a man's property, as they are
expected by tradition to take over the management of his business and other
properties including myself who automatically becomes a wife to one of his
immediate brothers.

Unfortunately to these wicked family members, the $18.5million United States
dollars which my late husband intended to use in establishing a business in
the United States or London was deposited in a bank account in LONDON
unknown to his family. I and the lawyer are the only one aware of this
money, As soon as I get your positive response; I shall provide you with all
the necessary detail for this transfer. However, I have decided to give you
$7,500,000 ($7.5M) of the total money as a reward for your sincere
assistance and the rest balance of the money will be for my investment while
5% of the money will be mapped aside for local and international expenses as
I will want to keep aglow my late husbands dream of investing in real estate
or any lucrative business that you may want us to invest the money into in
your country. Please I need your urgent assistance because my husband family
are trying to take all which I and my husband has laboured for and throw me
out of the house, please don't let this happen to me come and save me out of
this trouble and I will be forever be grateful to you. To be sincere and
honest with you, this money is never connected with drugs, money laundry,
firearms and looting, which I believe might put fears in you and
consequently withdrawing your help for security reasons. To be able to help
me, kindly send your personal details including your contact information for
easy communication.

Thanking you for your anticipated response.

Please send your reply to my private email address:( *
azeezat_ahmed3@yahoo.co.uk*<http://mail.google.com/mc/compose?to
eezat_ahmed3@yahoo.co.uk>
)

MRS. Azeezat Ahmed

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