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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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)
  • "united state of america" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Samer Ahmad" <samerahmad7@gala.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:42:49 +0000
Subject: Good day,


Good day,

I had your contact and would like to share a very important business with
you.if it did not interest you,I want you to excuse me.I am Mr Samer Ahmad,I
work in Iraq with the American Soldiers as a translator.I have evidence for
you to show the reality and genuity of this transaction.In one of our
military operations in Iraq,we discovered a strong trunk box in a big
mansion of a famous Iraqian businessman in the town of TIKRIT.

This strong trunk box,contains a hudge amount of money $28 Million United
state Of American Dollars We immediately kept this strong trunk box in a
safe place with three other American soldiers.After long deliberations
between us to know whether we should give this funds to the American
authorities in charge of the place or not,we in accord decided to share the
funds amongs ourself.For sharing, each one of us received the sum of USD7
Million. as for my own part,because of the problems of safety in Iraq, I
decided to arrange with the security agents in Iraq to transfer my share of
the funds out of Iraq, precisely in London.

I parkaged the funds in a parcel and sealed in a trunk box as being family
affairs and I coded it meaning to say that no person knows that this parcel
contains money except me. What I tell you is the truth and if we transact
together in this business, you will see it. Thus, I contact you to see
whether you can help me in recovering the trunk Box in a private security
company in London and to transfer it in your country and I would like to
invest these funds in profitable fields. I would give you also some
percentage of the funds if you agreed to assist in this transaction, the
percentage we will discuss when I receive your positive answer.

The Iraqi insurrectionists are against me with the result that they seek to
kill me because I make translations to the American soldiers. I do not leave
anyhow without the American Soldiers to avoid the worst.I do not use
telephones nor do I receive calls here. I use only the Internet and the
walkie-talkies to communicate with soldiers with whom I work. If this
transaction is well concluded, I want to resign of this work because to live
here in Iraq it is too risky.

I thank you and I awaits your response.

Yours Sincerely
Mr Samer Ahmad.

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