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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS NISHA SHAWN" <nisha_san1960@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: nisha_bank@arabtop.net
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 13:27:38 +0400
Subject: FROM MRS NISHA.S.MOHAMMED DUBAI-U.A.E

MRS NISHA SHAWN,
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT,
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT,
EMIRATE BANK OF U.A.E. CONFIDENTIAL.

Good day,
Got to know of you in search for a reputable and reliable
person to assist me in an urgent need requiring utmost
trust and confidentiality,while browsing the internet after
I and my colleagues have decided on what to do as regards the matter.
I am MRS NISHA SHAWN OF INDIA, the manager Bills and Exchange
under foreign remittance department of Emirate Bank of
Dubai U.A.E International. I am writing this letter to ask for your
support and co-operation to carry out this business
opportunity in my department.
We discovered an abandoned sum of US$7.5m in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who
died along with his entire family of a wife and three
children in October 1998,in a plane crash.
Do send your private telephone and fax number
including the full details of the account to be used for
the deposit. I want us to meet face to face or sign a
binding agreement to bind us together so that you can
receive this money into a foreign account or any account of
your choice where the fund will be safe and I will fly to
your country for withdrawal and sharing and other
investments.

To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately
indicate your interest by a return response.
My warm regards,
MRS NISHA SHAWN MOHAMMED.

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