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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:
  • "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)
  • "utmost confidentiality" (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 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.
  • savchenko60@hushmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "engelbert abbot" <r.ravensbergen@planet.nl>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:36:09 +0000
Subject: Reply urgently

Hello,

My name is Cabyeko Savchenko, I represent the director in the project and planning department of the Iraq Ministry of
Oil, who heads a seven man Tenders Board Committee in charge of contract award and Payment approvals. The reason for
contacting you is to seek your assistance in the transfer of funds into a foreign account.
Since the year 2000 my committee awarded series of contracts in local, regional and international companies. Some of the
contracts are listed below:

1.The expansion of Pipeline network crude oil and downstream products distribution and subsequent evacuation valued at
US$2 Billion.

2. Supply, install and maintain Explosion Proof Push Button Stations – US$168 Million.

The original value of these contracts was inflated to the sum of Forty-Five million United States Dollars. The contracts
have been completed and we are now ready to transfer the funds. Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer
the total amount into your account for subsequent disbursement, since as civil servants in Iraq we are prohibited from
opening and/or operating foreign accounts in our names.


Needless to say, the trust reposed in you at this juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed amongst ourselves to
offer you 20% of the transferred sum, 5% shall be set aside for any incidental expenses during the course of this
transaction, you will then be mandated to revert the balance to us in due course.


You must however NOTE that this transaction is subject to our conviction of your transparent honesty and diligence, that
you must accord this transaction with utmost confidentiality and secrecy.


Modalities have been worked out at the highest levels of the Ministry of Finance, Central Bank of Iraq and the Task Force
on Contract Payment for the immediate remittance of the funds within 7 business days subject to your satisfaction of the
above terms. Once I receive your consent, I will forward you details of the steps to taken


Our assurance is that your role shall be totally risk free. To accord this transaction the legality it deserves, and for
mutual security of funds, the whole procedures shall be legally processed with your name or any company you may nominate
as the bona fide final beneficiary.


Once more, I want you to understand that due to the current political instability in my country and the attendant
difficulties/ dangers in being a public servant in Iraq today; I and my family are prepared to leave Iraq immediately
upon completion of this deal. For obvious reasons, this matter should be treated with utmost secrecy and urgency.
I await your positive response on either of the emails: savchenko60@hushmail.com


Regards,
Cabyehko Savchenko

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