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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:
  • "a diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • gvssalem1212@yahoo.com.hk

Fraud email example:

From: =?big5?q?Salem=20Vivian?= <vssalem1212@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: viviansalem33@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 12:48:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Update reply please


§Ú¦³·sªº¹q¶l¦a§}¡I§A²{¥i¹q¶lµ¹§Ú¡Gvssalem1212@yahoo.com.hk

Dear Sir



Greetings!



It is indeed my pleasure to write you this letter, which I believe will be a surprise to you as we have never met before, and I am deeply sorry if I have in any manner disturbed your privacy. Please forgive this


unusual manner of contacting you, but this particular letter is of exceptional


and very private nature. There is absolutely going to be a great doubt and distrust in your heart in respect of this email, coupled with the fact that, so many individuals have taken possession of the Internet to


facilitate their nefarious deeds, thereby making it extremely difficult for genuine and legitimate business class persons to get attention and recognition. There is no way for me to know whether I will be properly


understood, but it is my duty to write and reach out to you.



My name is Mrs. Vivian Salem, wife of late Salem Nasim in Iraq, One year ago, I lost my husband Nasim and three children -Husam, 15 years old, Wasim, 12 years old and Merna, 6years old, this Happened when a


Combatant Military Tank shelled our car as my family attempted to flee heavy fighting in Baghdad, View the Website below for detail Story of how I lost my family .



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/04/vivians_story/html/1.stm



Before my husband and my Children was killed, he Deposited the sum of $29.5 million ( Twentynine Million five hundred thousand Dollars ) with a Security & Finance company in Baghdad. I had contacted a Diplomat who was attached to the United Nation Peace keeping forces in Baghdad and had assured me of assisting me to move the Boxes through Diplomatic Cargo,ONLY if I had a PARTNER to receive it on my behalf .



All I need from you is to receive the Fund as my husband business Associates and Invest the fund into any Lucrative Investment in your country.I will renumerate you with 30 % at the end,but most of all is that I solicit your trust in this transaction and will not want you to betray me at the end Please in your reply , include your Mobile number ,Home


telephone number and your residential or company address for easy Communication



Thank you,


Mrs.Vivian Salem

- Salem Vivian

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