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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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)
• 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.
  • gmrs_rose_ronke@yahoo.com.hk

Fraud email example:

From: =?big5?q?ronke=20rose?= <mrs_rose_ronke@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: roseronkesavage@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 16:12:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: YOUR COMPEMSATION,


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

Hello,


My boss gave me a certified bank draft of $800,000.00 (eight

hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) that I should send it to

you as compensation for all your efforts to assist him get the funds.

Remember he contacted you sometime in the past to assist him repatriate

the funds abroad so that the two of you can share the money.


He directed me to notify you about his success in getting those funds

transferred to Lebanon under the cooperation of a new partner from Lebanon. He left to Lebanon earlier last week with some people and from there; he will go to the USA. Meanwhile, confirm your address so that I can send the original draft to you. My boss is presently in Lebanon for investment projects with his own share of the total sum. He reiterated that he didn? forget your past efforts and attempts to assist him in

transferring those funds despite that it failed you somehow.



Now get in touch with me so that I can send you the certified international bank draft of total $800.000.00, which my boss kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist him in this matter. He appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So

feel free and get in touch with me and instruct me where to send the

draft to you.


Yours Faithfully

Rose,




- ronke rose

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