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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:
  • "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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "tonny smith" <tonnysmith2002@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:21:21 +0200
Subject: My money has been transferred

Dear Sir,

Good day sir, my Name is Mr. Tonny Smith, I am a technical adviser to your
business associate who has instructed me to transfer the sum US$50,000. Into
your nominated bank account in your country before he left the country .

Please study the letter he sends to me for your own confirmation.:

I have been able to transfer my money to Zurich in Switzerland through the
help of one Mr. Jack Robertson. He is a very good man.

Well, I just write to inform you that I left behind US$50,000.00. For you
with my new lawyer in South Africa. It’s just that I can not forget how you
are the very first person I contacted to help me and till today, I still
don’t know what went wrong.

Anyway, I have forgotten about the past and all I am doing now is to make
sure I invest properly my money. Reply me now and I will give you the
contact details of that my new lawyer for you to contact him and he will
transfer the US$50,000.00. To you.

Best regards,

Mr. Tonny Smith

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