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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.
• 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.
  • way2005in@myway.com
  • way2005in@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "private email" <way2011inn@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: way2005in@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:39:41 +0200
Subject: Reply Accondingly

Attn:

RE:TRANSFER OF USD168,559,000.00 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
Transfer of USD168,559,000.00 {One hundred and sixty eight million five
hundred and fifty nine thousand U.S dollar Only } from our bank. The fund
for transfer is of clean origin. The owner of the fund is a foreigner, who
was believed to acquire the fund through his secret Crude Oil deal with the
Former IRAQI government. The deceased died with all the members of his
family in an auto-accident in June 23,1999 without a WILL. The amount
involved is USD168,559,000.00

I want to transfer this money into your account as the beneficiary of the
fund. I know that this letter will come to you as a surprise as we don't
know ourselves before, BUT BE SURE THAT IT IS REAL AND A GENUINE BUSINESS. I
HOPE THAT YOU WILL NOT LET ME DOWN ONCE THE FUND GOES INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.

Let me hear from you.
Mr Peter Linley
way2005in@myway.com
or
way2005in@excite.com

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