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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)
  • "into your nominated bank account" (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)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • contactm.hassan440@yahoo.co.in
  • mhassan330@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?MRS.=20HASSAN=20AHMED?=" <contactm.hassan440@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: mhassan440@casinomail.com
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 03:43:02 +0100 (BST)
Subject: ARE YOU BACK...?


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: contactm.hassan440@yahoo.co.in



Dear Friend,


I am a widow and a mother of two. Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you, l want you to help me out in securing this fund ( $14.9million dollars) into your nominated bank account and in your custody for safe keeping as you know that you can keep security, be trusted and hope on, pending my arrival in your country as l will like to invest in muilt-national company 0r any profitable business venture. It all started after the sudden death of my husband. I have been thrown into a state of utter confusion, frustration and hopelessness by my late husband family members as we have been subjected to physical and psychological torture by them. Unfortunately to these wicked family members? My late husband deposited money with a Finance House unknown to them.


And according to some barbaric traditional laws here in West Africa which does not permit a woman to inherit a man's property, as it is expected by tradition. For this reason l want to settle down with my kids in your country if only you will welcome us, as i am very sure that you will be of a good assistance that is the more reason why i have contacted you to stand and receive this fund on my behalf. Though this said fund accumulated between the periods 1999-2004, which belongs to my late husband as he died of Heart Attack. Now the management of the bank have just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to receive the money, So I have discussed this matter with the bank lawyer that i want this money personally so that I will be able to take care of my children educational needs. According to him the best way to secure this money is for me to look for a foreigner who would assist me in the transferring this money outside my country to a foreign account for safe-keeping, the fund can be paid to you from their offshore payment center as i have decided to compensate you with 25% for your assistance and 5% for any expense that you may incur.



Later l can then use it for business establishment that is why l needs your help. My husband has deposited this fund pending when he would finish arrangement to transfer it abroad for an investment before his death due to the poor banking system here and political instability as a result of past Military rules. Ever since then i and my fatherless kids have being living without nobody to help us, please give back life and future to us by assisting in this transaction. To be sincere and honest with you, this money is never connected with drugs, money laundry, firearms and looting, which I believe might make you skeptical and consequently withdrawing your help for security reasons. I would like to receive your contact details so that we can discuss business. However. All the modiatilite to make you the beneficiary will work out as we proceed. I wait to hear from you and if you’re not interested kindly let me know via mail box ( mhassan330@myway.com ), so that l can search for someone else. It is profit oriented business and there is no risk involve, please honesty is the watch word in this transaction.


My regards to you.

Mrs. Hassan A. Ahmed

- MRS. HASSAN AHMED

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