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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:
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk boxes" (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 "dying merchant" scam.
• 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.
  • sheikhrah2005@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Alsheikh Rahman" <alsheikh2005@netscape.net>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:08:21 +0200
Subject: CHARITY WORKS(WAITING FOR YOUR RESPONSE)


Dear ruud.bank,

Greetings to you and Please permit me to introduce myself. I am Mr. ALSHEIKH RAHMAN a Saudi
National and a crude oil Merchant before I was diagnosed with esophageal cancer which has defied all
medical solutions and according to medical experts I only have a few more months to live.

As you read this you do not have to feel sorry for me as it is a universal truth that we all must die
someday, the only problem with mine though being that I have particularly not lived my life well in spite of
my wealth and possessions as I never really cared for anyone (not even myself) but my business.

Though I was very rich I was never generous, I was never caring about people but only dedicated my
time and resources on my business as that was the only thing I cared about. But now I regret all this as I
now know that there is more to life than just accumulating all the wealth in the world as I lay helplessly on
my sick bed. If I was given a second chance to live again I sure would live my life a different way from
how I have lived it owing to what has befallen me now. As my last days alive are drawing closer and
closer I have already willed out most of my properties and assets to my immediate and
extended family members as well as a few close friends.

I also want my soul to be at peace with God and for him to be merciful on me and accept my soul and to
this regard I have resolved to give my remaining funds to charity organizations as I want this to stand as
one of the last deeds I indulge in on earth before I die. Though I have already distributed money to some
charity organizations, Now that my health has deteriorated so badly I can no longer continue with this
myself and also I do not trust my immediate family members or close friends on this as I have once asked
them to close one of my accounts and distribute the funds therein to charity organizations in Bulgaria,
Sri-Lanka India and Pakistan they greedily kept the money to themselves. Hence I am contacting you
with this as I have lost confidence in them because it is obvious they are not contended with what I have
left for them.

The last of my funds which no one knows of is a cash deposit of Eighteen million U.S Dollars stashed in
2 trunk boxes and declared as Personal effects of high security value which I have with a
finance/Security Company in Europe. All I am asking of you is to assist me in making the collection of this
deposit and dispatching the funds to any charity of your choice after keeping 20% of the funds for
yourself and your family.10% of these funds should be to cover any expenses that might be incurred in
the process of making this claims.

Please contact me as soon as you get this email if you are capable and sincere to handle this transaction
on my behalf so I can forward you with all relevant documents necessary for the claims and the name of
the security firm where the funds are deposited.

God bless you as I await words from you. Please inform as soon as possible if you are not interested so I
can proceed to seek for someone else to carry out this on my behalf. Find attached a picture of me along
with this email for your perusal.
Please respond to me on this email address if you are willing to assist me,
sheikhrah2005@netscape.net

May God Bless You.

Mr. ALSHEIKH RAHMAN

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