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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:
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "diplomatic security company" ("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.
  • amirahmohammed77@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3aamirahmohammed77@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Mohammed Amira" <amirahmohammed009@mailbox.hu>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:24:30 +0800
Subject: PLEASE HELP ME!!!


IS MY PLEASURE TO CONTACT YOU!!

Firstly, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction and I
pray that my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval
considering the facts we have not known each other before.I wish to use this
opportunity to introduce myself to you. I am Princess Amira Mohammed from
Ivory Coast.

I am the first daughter of my father H.R.H Sani Mohammed who was the former
king of my village. My father and my whole family are massacred during the
recent political crisis that came up in my country.

When my father was alive he revealed to me about his money worth of
US$15million in a security box which he deposited in diplomatic security
company in London for safe keeping.

Presently, I am under the custody of United Nation High Commision for
Refugees(UNHCR) in United Kingdom notifying my father's lawyer of claim and
also i can see that United Kingdom is expensive for investment with this
money and my security is also monitored here in London by my father's
opponents.

Therefore i want you to help me in the claim of this money as my next of kin
and invest it into your country, because my father told me that it is
dangerous to invest this money in my country to avoid suspicious, and due to
market instability coupled with economic and political instability facing my
country that is why I want to invest in your country if you can be kind and
sincere to me.

For your foreign assistance i have agreed to offer you 30% of the total
amount of the money.

NOTE: I have never disclosed this to any person apart from you, so you have
to keep this very confidential. I would like to your full contact
information which i have to submit to my lawyer to contact you as the new
beneficiary of my money and also give you better understanding of the
situation.

Write me back with this
email:amirahmohammed77@yahoo.com<email%3Aamirahmohammed77@yahoo.com>

Best regards,
Amira Mohammed

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