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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:
  • "huge deposit" (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)
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • mrahmadakram@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ahmad akram" <ahmad_06akram@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:19:16 +0200
Subject: FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT

FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT,
ARAB JORDAN INVESTMENT BANK
www.ajib.com
AMMAN JORDAN.
Email:(mrahmadakram@yahoo.com)

Greetings,

Please this mail demands absolute confidentiality.My name is Mr.Ahmad Akram.
I am the manager international remittance department ARAB JORDAN INVESTMENT
BANK LTD. I have contacted you to assist me in securing the assets and
Capital valued atUS$47.5 million left behind by our former Palestinian
leader YESSAR ARAFAT who just passed away.

This huge deposit was lodged as treasury bills six months before he became
very ill.
Please I need your assistance to help me secure this huge deposit before the
new government will start tracing all his account for possible confiscation.
Please on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the
modalities for transfer to your nominated account.

I have all the necessary information’s needed to make thetransfer within a
short period of time. All I require from you is your honesty.And please
contact me in this email address(mrahmadakram@yahoo.com) so that I can get
back to you immediately.
I guarantee that this will be executed under alegitimate arrangement.

Thanks and Almighty Allah bless you.

Best regard,

Mr.Ahmad Akram.

FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT,
ARAB JORDAN INVESTMENT BANK
www.ajib.com
AMMAN JORDAN.
Email:(mrahmadakram@yahoo.com)

Greetings,

Please this mail demands absolute confidentiality.My name is Mr.Ahmad Akram.
I am the manager international remittance department ARAB JORDAN INVESTMENT
BANK LTD. I have contacted you to assist me in securing the assets and
Capital valued atUS$47.5 million left behind by our former Palestinian
leader YESSAR ARAFAT who just passed away.

This huge deposit was lodged as treasury bills six months before he became
very ill.
Please I need your assistance to help me secure this huge deposit before the
new government will start tracing all his account for possible confiscation.
Please on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the
modalities for transfer to your nominated account.

I have all the necessary information’s needed to make thetransfer within a
short period of time. All I require from you is your honesty.And please
contact me in this email address(mrahmadakram@yahoo.com) so that I can get
back to you immediately.
I guarantee that this will be executed under alegitimate arrangement.

Thanks and Almighty Allah bless you.

Best regard,

Mr.Ahmad Akram.

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