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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:
  • ",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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "you will be entitled to 30%" (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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "peggy ford" <peggyford3@ldsliving.com>
Reply-To: paggyford@live.com
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:21:01 -1200
Subject: This Message From Miss. Peggy Ford.


This Message From Miss. Peggy Ford.
Dear One.

Good Day, i know that this message will come to you as suprise, but is bord
on genune business and that is while i contacted you for help.

I am Miss Peggy Ford the the only child of the late Terry Ford, a farmer In
Zimbabwe.
I am contacting you for assistance due to the recent problems that my family
is facing in Zimbabwe.After the last general elections in my country where
the incumbent President Mr. Robert Mugabe won he adopted a very aggressive
land reform programme. During this period of the Land Reform Act of which
many rich White farmers were killed, our farmland was attacked, looted and
burnt down by militants sponsored by the dictator President Robert Mugabe
and in the process my father was killed.

Before his death, he had deposited the sum of €15,000,000.00(Fifteen Million
Euros) with a Bank abroad, as he foresaw the Looming dangers in Zimbabwe.
The amount was meant for the purchase of new machineries and Chemicals
proposed for new farms in Zimbabwe.

This cash was kept with the Bank for fear of seizure by the Government, as
President Mugabe had declared war on white farmers. I have been unable to
travel to out due to the recent problems in our country Zimbabwe, I cannot
secure a visa. It is due to this situation that I have decided to contact
you for assistance to make claims of this fund from the Bank on behalf of my
family.

As soon as you claim this fund you will transfer it into your account,
deduct your share and secure my share until i come over to your country. For
your assistance you will be entitled to 30% of the total fund.

Note that you will assist me invest my share of this funds in a profitable
business in your country with your supervision. Please get back to me
immediately so we can proceed.

Regards and God Bless.

Miss Peggy Ford

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