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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)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "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)
• 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.
  • msoshdiaz@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ms.Osh Diaz" <oshdiaz004@fastwebmail.it>
Reply-To: msoshdiaz@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:03:22 +0200
Subject: Please Reply !


Dear friend,


I have not considered this medium to be the best manner to have
approached you on this issue being that the Internet has been greatly
abused over the recent time and is very unsecured for informations of
vital importance. I have decided to take the chance seeing that no
other means could have been faster and more efficient than the E-mail.
However, It has been my dream to have a kind of joint business
venture in your locality due to its lucrative investment atmosphere. I
am Ms. Osh Diaz(Fillipino)who was then the special courier mistress of
the then former ousted president of Philippine (Joseph Estrada)now on
political trials concerning financial misappropriation of his
country's national fund.


While working for him as special courier protocol, He used myself to
deposit a metallic truck containing huge sum about eleven million
united states dollars in a security company in remote states in Africa
in disguised of family valuable to avoid taxation or eyes on the
metallic truck. Although, then he promised and bestowed a lot of
pledges he never fulfill rather he resorted in plotting against me
that compelled me to have rethink in living in Manila any further.


Fortunately, for me every related deposit documentation to this
deposit had been in my custody, and I decided I need seek your
partnership and kind of liaisoning assistance from you that if you
will be able to be of assistance in helping me have this metallic
truck relocated from its present position to your country while I join
you later for a joint partnership venture if you don't mind. This
assistance will not require any of private information non your
finance be assure. I will be expecting to hear from you to this
regard, so I will give to you more details regarding my personalities
and detail info of the security and financial company over there to
you so that you reach the security company as my business
representative to retrieve the said metallic truck containing the
afore mentioned sum as well as subsequent request for the shipment of
the metallic truck to your place without you going down there. I will
be waiting to hear from you regarding my proposal so that we can go
ahead having the metallic truck relocated to your place while I join
you and the metallic truck on arrival in your place for a joint
business investment venture. (msoshdiaz@hotmail.com)

Best regard
Ms. Osh Diaz.

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