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

Fraud email example:

From: "Engr. Mohmoud Razzouqi" <engrrmahmoud@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: engrrmahmoud@sify.com
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:36:03 -0800
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR REPLY.

Attention: Managing Director
Dear Sir.
I feel safe and confident working with you after going through your contact information. First, I am Engineer Mahmoud Razzouqi from Iraq, but I am now living in Bangkok Thailand Bangkok (conditionally). I will like to invest in your country that is why I am writing to you. So I will like to know the procedures of a non-citizen investing in your company or country, because I cannot invest in your company\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 am inquiring from you 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,
Thank you so much for taking time to go through my e-mail and I am also looking forward to read your reply soon so as to detail you on my investments program and how much fund that I am intending to invest and also the area of the business that I would like to invest it after good negotiation. Send me your private phone and fax numbers in your reply and please copy your reply to my private email engrrmahmoud@sify.com <mailto:engrrmahmoud@sify.com> .
Best Regards
Engr. Mohmoud Razzouqi

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