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

Fraud email example:

From: kazuhiko <kazuhikogeorge@myway.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:57:10 +0100
Subject: KINDLY ASSIST.


Hello Dear,
With a very desperate need for assistance, I have summed up courage to contact you. I am from Japan presently working in Iraq with an international organisation that I will disclose to you later, I found your contact particulars in an address journal. I am seeking your assistance to evacuate the sum of $ 28, 500,000 (Twenty eight million, five hundred thousand dollars) to your country or any other safe country of your choice, in as much as you can give me a guarantee
that my own share will be safe in your care untill I complete my service here. This is no stolen money, and there are no dangers involved.

SOURCE OF MONEY:
Some money in various currencies was discovered in barrels with piles of weapons and ammunitions at a location near one of Saddam,s old palaces during a rescue operation, and it was agreed by all party present that the money be shared amongst us, this was quite an illegal thing to do, but I tell you what?no compensation can make up for the risks we have taken with our lives in this hell hole.
The above figure was given to me as my share, and to conceal this kind of money became a problem for me, so with the help of a German contact, I was able to get the package out to a safe
location entirely out of trouble spot. I have now found a secured way of getting the package out to Europe for you to pick up, and will discuss this with you when I am sure of your sincerity in this.
One passionate appeal I will make to you is not to discuss this matter with a third party, should you have reasons to reject this offer, please destroy this mail as any leakage of this information will be too bad for us. I do not know for how long we will remain here, and I have survived 2 suicide bomb attacks by the special grace of God, this and other reasons I will mention later has prompted me to reach out for help, I honestly want this matter to be resolved immediately.
Please contact me through my personal email at:..( kazuhikogeorge@myway.com)
so we can discuss more.
Respectfully,
Kazuhiko O.

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