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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan 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.
  • hassan_aziz12@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Hassan Aziz" <hassan_aziz122@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: hassan_aziz13@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:32:19 +0100
Subject: WE NEED YOUR HELP

My Dear Friend,
Good day to you, I hope fine, Dear am writing this mail with due respect and heartful of tears in my eyes.Since we have not known or met ourselves previously I am asking for your assistance,i have gone through your profile and will be very glad if you can render me assistance to my situation now, I got your contact from the Ecowas Information Centre in Senegal. My sources of your contact gave me the courage and confidence.
It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish
in your country, though I have not met with you before but I believe one has to risk
confiding in success sometimes in life. I am Mr. Hassan Aziz, a citizen of Sierra-Leone the Son of Dr. Mohammad Usman Aziz, who before his death was the person managing the Sierra -Leone Gold and Diamond corporation( SGDC).
My aim of contacting you is to seek for your able assistance as a front in transferring this fund abroad into an account , then as a business developer,you can help us to invest wisely in areas you deem lucrative and finally obtain a residential permit for us to stay comfortable in your country of abode.
My Late Father Deposit the Sum of ($10.5Millions) Ten Millions Five Hundred Thousand Us Dollars, Which My late Father kept for us in the Finance Company before he was assassinated by unknown persons. Now I and my younger Sister have decided to invest the Fund in your country or anywhere save enough outside Africa for security and political reasons. We want you to help us claim and retrieved the Fund from the Holding Company and Transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment purposes on profitable ventures.
If your capable to assist us, We will offer you 30% of the total fund. while we have set aside 10% of the total fund for any expenses incur by you during the process. I await your soonest response through our private mailbox: hassan_aziz12@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:hassan_aziz12@yahoo.co.uk>
Finally I implore you to treat this transaction with secrecy and confidentiality for
security reasons. I Need Your Information's
HOME ADDRESS N;0.......................
TELEPHONE NUMBER....................
AGE................................................
FAX NUMBER.................................
YOUR FULL NAME.........................
Thanking,
You in anticipation and God bless you..
Respectfully yours,
Hassan Aziz.

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