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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 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)
  • ",000,000" (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.
  • isa_williams@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Isa Williams" <isatwilliams6@googlemail.com>
Reply-To: isa_williams@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:37:44 -0700
Subject: I NEED A TRUSTWORTHY PERSON WHO CAN INVEST OUR INHERITANCE VALUE


*
I am contacting you to help me out in this situation I found myself.I am Isa
Ahmend Williams a christian convert from Iraq, I presently live in london
where
I am studing engineering in the university.I have been persuaded by A
TERRORIST
ORGANISATION to join them and donate my (WILL)&nbsp; $100,000,000 (One
Hundred Million Dollars) to support their organisation for TERRORIST
ACTIVITIES.*

*This (WILL) was left behind by my late father Hammad Williams from his
lawyer
after his dead to help me take care of myself and my only sister Nina.I am
afraid and do not want to sponsor any TERRORISM because my mother died in a
suicide bomb attack last year making me have so much Hatred on them.*

*I have contacted you to help me in confidence transfer the money to your
bank
account in your country so that I will come over and meet with you to
continue
my education under your care and to stay away from this terrorist Union who
want my life if I fail to comply with them as they have sworn to trace and
kill
my only sister who is in IRAQ studying.*

*I have stoped attending school because I am now into hiding under the roof
of a
poor steward in a church to save my life from danger because I am been
monitored
before coming to this hide-out.I need you to contact the bank where the
funds is
deposited on my behalf so that the bank will transfer the funds into your
bank
account.Do send personal data for identification and trust because I do not
know you in person.I have the necessary documents to back you up upon your
contact with the bank:*

*(1)Your full name (2),Age and Occupation (3)International passport
page/drivers
Licence (4) Telephone number. Upon the receipt of these, I will send you the
contact of the bank so that you will contact them yourself.I will compensate
you handsomely for your help and effort upon the transfer of this
funds.Reply
to **isa_williams@hotmail.com* <isa_williams@hotmail.com>

*Waiting to hear from you.*


*Isa Ahmad Williams*


*
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