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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "diplomatic courier" ("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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "GHAZI KRAYTEM" <krayghazi67@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: ghazi67_kraytem@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:54:33 +0400
Subject: PARDON MY INTRUISION

Dear Friend,


May God bless you richly as you read this mail, My name is Ghazi Kraytem a former
head Lebanese chamber of commerce .Iam a Labanese citizen and also a businessman
with a large orange farm and an orange juice processing Factory in the Southern Port City of Tyre.
Business was going on well until the war between my country and Isreal broke
out I manage to escape death on a very bloody saturday morning when the
Isreali milliant forces attacked Lebanon and raised my factory down
with bomb shells.


God on my side I fled with my family to where I am presently which I can not mention
for Security reasons. I have the sum of US$15M in the safe in my farm
which only my trusted assistant knows the unlocking numbers. I have
instructed him to seal the funds as valuables and family treasure in a
trunk box and have it delivered via a Diplomatic courier service, this is
where i seek your assistance to help me recieve the funds in your safe
hands until I will be able to come over to where you are with my family
and have the funds duely invested in a foreign country as I do not
which to go back to Lebanon.


For your assistance you will be entitled to 20% of the total funds upon
the claims of the funds and I will have my 80% do reach me in the
earliest possible time, I still have more details for you upon the reciept of
your very possitive response.


Stay Blessed.


Ghazi Kraytem

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