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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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• 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.
  • scotty@worldemail.com

Fraud email example:

From: Captain Smith Scott <captainsmith@captainsmith.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 02:11:01 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Captain Smith Scott From IRAQ


Greetings,

I am Captain Smith Scott of the US Marine Force on Monitoring and Peace keeping mission in Baghdad-iraq. On the 26th day of October 2006, we were alerted on the sudden presence of some terrorists camping in a suburb not too far from Karbala here in Iraq. After immediate intervention, we captured three (3) of the Terrorists, twenty-six (26) were killed leaving seven (7) injured.

In the process of torture they confessed being rebels for late Ayman al-Zawahiri and took us to a cave in Karbala which served as their camp. Here we recovered several guns, bombs and other Ammunitions including some boxes among which two
contains suspected nuclear weapons, one filled with hard drugs(cocaine) and the other four to my amazement contain some US Dollars amounting to $10.2M after I and two of my junior intelligent officers counted them. I however instructed them to keep this in high secrecy.

I am in keen need of a "Reliable and "Trustworthy" person like you who would receive, secure and protect these boxes containing the US Dollars for me up on till my assignment elapses here in Iraq. I assure and promise to give you 14% of this
fund, however feel free to negotiate what you wish to have as your percentage in this business.

Please assure me of your keeping this top-most secret to protect my job with the US Monitoring and Peace-Keeping mission. I will be waiting to hear from you as soon as possible to proceed. Do not reply to this email, reply me to:
scotty@worldemail.com for security reasons.

Sincere regards,
Captain Smith Scott.

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