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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)
  • "trunk box" (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)
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a "dying merchant" 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.
  • anuprajth@sfax.ws (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "rajadvisor9 Gazeta.pl" <rajadvisor9@gazeta.pl>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 22:53:06 +0000
Subject: Please reply Urgently !


Dear Friend,

You should please reply(anuprajth@sfax.ws)
Do not repy to the email address you are reading from

As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for
me, because, I believe everyone will die someday.
I am Dr. Anup Raj Thapa, Oil merchant in Dubai, in the
U.A.E. I have been diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer
which was discovered very late, due to my laxity in
carrying for my health. It has defiled all forms of
medicine, and right now I have only about a few
months to live, according to medical experts.

I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I
never really cared for anyone not even myself but my
business. I was never generous, I was always hostile
to people and only focus on my business as that was the
only thing I cared for. But now I regret all this as I
now know that there is more to life than just wanting to
have or make all the money in the world. I believe when
God gives me a second chance to come to this world I
would live my life a different way from how I have lived it.


Now that God ! has called me, I have willed and given
most of my properties and assets to my immediate and
extended family members and as well as a few close
friends. I want God to be merciful to me and accept my
soul and so, I have decided to give arms to charity
organizations and give succour and confort to the less
priviledged in our societies, as I want this to be one
of the last good deeds I do on earth.


So far, I have distributed money to some charity
organizations in the Myammer, Algeria and Malaysia. Now
that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do
this my self anymore. I once asked members of my
family to close one of my accounts and distribute the
money which I have there to charity organization and
to the less priviledged in Bulgaria and Pakistan, they
refused and kept the money to themselves. Hence, I do
not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be
contended with what I have left for them.


The last of my money which no one knows of is the huge
cash deposit of Seven Million, Three Hundred Thousand
United State Dollars $7.300,000,00 in a Metalic Trunk box
Deposited with a Finance & Security Company in Europe.
I would want you to help me claim the deposit and transfer
the money into your BANK account and disburse it to some
charity organizations and to the less priviledged.
send me a mail to indicate if you can take up this Task.

You should please reply to (anuprajth@sfax.ws)
Do not repy to the email address you are reading from


Dr.Anup Raj Thapa

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