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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found 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.
  • muhradali@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MUHRAD ALI" <muhradali3@gmal.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: muhradali1@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:16:37 +0700
Subject: INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP


Dear Sir/Madam,
With deep appreciation of your esteem contact I got from your business website, I wish to introduce myself to you, I am Mr. Muhrad Ali from Lebanon, but I am living now in Thailand (conditionally) actually I will like to invest in your company. I will like to know the procedures of a non-citizen investing in your company\country, actually after reading through your web-site; I decided to contact you because I cannot invest in your company or country without an assistant from someone from your country.

I will like you to advice me on a business there that I can invest and the procedures before the investment, why I inquired is because, in investments, you have to look for a good company and country that the safety environmental condition of the foreign investor is guaranteed,
A company\ country that is trustworthy with good government, good management and better economy to invest so that you can be sure of reaping the good dividends of investment. Thanks very much for taking time to go through my e-mail and I am also looking forward to read your reply soon so that I can detail you on more reasons why I have contacted you to seek for your kind and honest assistance. I will wait for your quick reply then I will furnish you with more details about our transaction and discussion. Reply to muhradali@yahoo.com <mailto:muhradali@yahoo.com>
Salaam

Mr. Muhrad Ali

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