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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "julliez kagema" <julliez17kagema@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: j_kagema@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:33:38 +0000
Subject: am greeting

 

hello good day to you

 

i will not forget to ask you about your health,i hope all is well with you.
please Kindly accept my apology for sending this unsolicited mail to you.
I believe you are a highly respected personality
considering the fact that I sourced your profile from a human resource profile database on your country then. I found you very interesting personality.
first i must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction,this is by virtue of it's nature being utterly  confidencial and top secret.let me briefly introduce my hunble self to you. i am (MISS.JULLIE KAGEMA) THE DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT OF BICICI BANK (PLC) in COTE D'IVIORE.ABIDJAN.
i was born and brought up in (PARIS FRANCE) then after my cause in the school due to my job it brought me back in my country but my parents are still there.
I am requesting for your assistance in a transaction of Considerable financial gain for both of us.
after going through on your profile i felt like to contact you in this transaction and to establish a good long term relationship with you. if you care to know what i am talking about. then contact me immediately via email (furnished above)for more information.
I will be very glad and excited that you did. and i apologyse once again that am very much sorry if this mail will cause you some embaracement or surprices as we don't know our selves before please don't be much offended.
or may be if it comes at the wrong day of your day please forgive me.
Thanks for your co-peration and your urgent responce
please feel free to ask me any question.
Thanks for your time
regards MISS JULLIE
 

 

 

 

 

 

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