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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "confidentiality of this transaction" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• 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.
  • mr.jamilharon@yahoo.com.my

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Jamil Haron. Haron." <mrjamilharon2@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:12:43 -0700
Subject: Business Proposal


*From The Desk Of:Mr. Jamil Haron
Palm Oil Refiners Association of Malaysia
(PORAM) Malaysia.
PRIVATE EMAIL:(**mr.jamilharon@yahoo.com.my* <mr.jamilharon@yahoo.com.my>*)*

*MY FRIEND,*

*I am Mr.Jamil Haron, Executive Director, of the Newly Constituted Palm
Oil Refiners Association of Malaysia (PORAM).I got your contact address from
an associate working with the Malaysia Export Promotion Council and I
decided to propose to you this business in strict confidence. This
transaction requires mutual understanding, transparency and absolute trust
to be executed.
*

*This commission was reconstituted in 2003 by the Federal Government of
Malaysia as a result of consistent Environmental Neglect agitated by the
Palm Oil and Minerals Producing States. This commission received a budgetary
allocation of US$1.150 Billion for Environmental Maintenance/ Management of
Palm Oil producing states for the 2003/2008 Fiscal Year.In view of the
present political situation in our country.*


*I have agreed with my colleagues to withdraw the sum of US$28.3 Million
(TWENTY EIGHT MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND USDOLLARS) as an Over-Invoice
of a contract we awarded for the Environmental Maintenance.All modalities to
ensure a hitch-free transfer of this fund into your account through the
officials of BANK NEGARA MALAYSIA (BNM) and Federal Ministry of Finance have
been properly worked out.*


*Note: There is no risks or dangers involved, I have agreed with my
colleagues that after the business, you should keep 30% of the total fund,
myself and my colleagues will take 60% while the remaining 10% is mapped out
to cover the international and local expenses that might be incurred by both
parties in the course of this transaction.*


*If this proposal interest you of which I hope it would, please forward to
me immediately the followings by mail.*


*1. Full company's? Name and Address
2. Private telephone and fax numbers
3. Your full bank name and address
4. Bank account number, account name and telephone*


*As soon as we receive the above information from you,we shall immediately
file up applications for approvals and payment following.*


*NOTE: You must maintain the topmost confidentiality of this transaction
because we are top civil servants who would not joke with our reputation.*

*
Thanks.

Best Regards*

*Mr. Jamil Haron.
(Executive Director)*

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