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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• 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.
  • henrywisdom70@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "henry" <henrywisdom1@excite.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:49:32 -0500 (EST)
Subject: HOW IS LIFE










DearBUSINESS PROPOSAL / CONFIDENTIALMay I crave your indulgence to open this business discussion with you byan informal letter of this sort? It is pertinent that a business of thismagnitude should have commenced properly with a formal meeting between youand us to enable both parties know ourselves, have a fore knowledge of thenature of the business, discuss and acquaint ourselves with theresponsibilitiesand functions of both parties and appropriate shares accordingly. But asa result of the urgency of this operation I have decided to contact you byE-mail to hear from you first before planning on the next line of actionMy Name is Henry wisdom,I am a vault Manager with a security company herein EUROPE. This transaction if handled with outmost care and secrecy willbe successfully concluded within 10 days. In the year 2003 before thebeginningof the American led Coalition war in Iraq, a deposit of a consignment wasmade here in our company by the late son of the former president of
IraqSaddam Huesein Mr, Qusai Hussein who was recently killed by the AmericanSoldiers in Iraq.Ouasai Hussein made this deposit personally and no one in my office at thismoment knows that this consignment belongs to him only me and my friend whois the Computer Lodgment officer in our company. We have tried toinvestigatethe content of this box and found out that the consignment contains moneyand in cash, worth US$65,000.000.00 (Sixty Five Million dollars), No oneelse in our office knows about the content and the owner of this consignmentas this was declared as family valuables. We have therefore decided to finda way to take away this consignment from our office and move the money out.Hence we are looking for a trustworthy person internationally who will comeforward to claim this consignment.I have to make necessary arrangements for the change of ownership of thisconsignment to anybody name who is willing to work with us within 10 workingdays of receipt of the information?s we
will need from you, we will do thechange of ownership, so that no one in our office will ever know what isgoing on and move the consignment away from here to any of our companyagentsoutside Germany to any other part of Europe where it will be easy to claimthe items. If this proposal meets your interest please get back to meimmediatelyin my alternative email Address(henrywisdom70@myway.com) by giving me yourtelephone numbers to enable me give to you further details on how we haveplanned to carry this operation smoothly. As soon as I receive yourresponse,I will also give to you my private telephone number for easy communicationyour urgent response awaited.Yours faithfullyMR Henry Wisdom

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