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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:
  • "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.
  • risunam01@koreanmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "rbmart2006@terra.es" <rbmart2006@terra.es>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:16:17 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: FROM MRS MITSURU CLAIRE AKIHIKO SAITO




FROM MRS MITSURU CLAIRE AKIHIKO SAITO

Hello Dear,

There is absolutely going to be a great doubt and distrust in your heart in respect to this email, coupled with the fact that so many miscreants and mischief-makers who have taken possession of the Internet to facilitate their nefarious deeds, thereby making it extremely difficult to believe that any quest for assistance through the internet is real or genuine making it difficult for persons who need help to get attention, recognition and assistance. I am writing you this mail on my sick bed and with pains in my heart.I am Mitsuru Claire Akihiko Saito the wife of the Late Japanese contractor that was killed in Iraq.Three months after his death, I went for a check-up, doctor told me that my lungs have been infected with a problem due to the shock of the sudden news of my husbands death. I decided to go for a surgery immediately so that my lungs will not be affected badly.Two months after the surgery, the same problem continues, and then I have to be transferred to another hospital for thorough treatment. But when I got to the new hospital, the doctors there confirmed that I am suffering from the cancer of the lungs, and have been infected badly,the worst of all is that their is no other remedy for it and that i have only three months to live. Unfortunately, I and my late husband had one issue (child) before his death.My late husband had the sum of Eleven million five hundred thousand United States dollars (USD $11.5m) with a finance company in Nigeria after executing a multi million dollar project in Nigeria before his death. I anxiously solicit your assistance to act as a fund manager to my family to secure our fund in a bank account and possibly offshore investment for our mutual benefit.The fund was realized from the contract he executed for the ADNOC OIL. I do not want the brother of my late Husband to be aware of the deal as all my late husbands assests that are willed to my only child and i, has been taken by him.This is the primary reasons why we have to keep this business confidential. Mr. Hironobu Saito is a brother to my late husband but in my late husband's will, there is no mention of the name of Mr. Hironobu Saito, rather all assets are willed to me and my child.The above reasons made me to involve my late husband's confidant MR RI SU NAM from South Korea to work with you to ensure that the fund is secured in your account for the purpose of investment.He is well known to the family for years and very trustworthy and reliable too.I would not want a direct contact with you for now as I am staying under the same roof with my late husband's family in Japan.You shall contact MR RI SU NAM to enable you commence with the transaction.All the original documents regarding the said contract payment have been handed to MR RI SU NAM.He shall make the documents available to you.As soon as the fund is transferred, I shall be relocating to your country with my child to start up a new life. We shall have to secure the sum ($11.5 Million Dollars) in your reliable Bank account whereas the bulk sum ( 35.5million usd held in A.D.B) would be an issue of later discussion since it was deposited with a three year maturity Date. I shall issue a letter of authority in your favour which would authorize you to receive the Investment Capital .You shall contact MR RI SU NAM at risunam01@koreanmail.com , inorder to proceed with transferring the Investment Capital to your reliable account. Take note that this transaction is 100% legitimate and risk free. You shall be paid 20% of this fund for assisting to secure the funds for investment purposes. Please ensure that this matter is kept strictly confidential. You can learn more about my late husband's predicament at: www.ogrish.com/.../japanese_contractor_akihiko_ saito_taken_hostage_by_ansar_al_sunnah_army_May_09_2005.html - 10k - Expecting your urgent response. Mitsuru Claire Akihiko Saito





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