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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "await your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Tereza C. Vilela" <tcvilela@empro.com.br>
Reply-To: ash_william@live.com
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:10:26 -0300
Subject: Hello


 


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Dear Friend,

Your contact came to me through my intensive search for a competent foreign
partner in the person of your respected self.

 To introduce myself,I am Ms Ashley William, of the ministry of health
in Mauritius.Though constrained by  inadequate information about you; I
am relying on your genuine and sincerity, knowing fully that the transaction
will be beneficial to us in all aspects.

The transaction in question of which I am about to reveal to you,emanated
from over-invoicing of contract awarding in my ministry for the supplies of
medical equipment and quality health programs. In the course of the contract
awarded and executed, the approval and payments were completed on my
directives. The (my) commission has been paid out as agreed to receiving
vault institute.

For full details: please kindly response to my email address below:
Email:ash_william@live.com

Await your urgent response,
Ms Ashley William.
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