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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)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united states dollars" (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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Hanan Al Mazem" <hnanm775@yahoo.it> (may be fake)
Reply-To: hnan775@yahoo.ca
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:59:39 +0100
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF MR. HANAN AL MAZEM.

FROM THE DESK OF MR. HANAN AL MAZEM.
BRANCH OPERATIONAL MANAGER NATIONAL BANK OF ABU-DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.
Email:


Good day.

Dear Friend, Your first reaction to this mail will be total rejection, scare and maybe disbelief, owning largely to the atrocities some people commit these days on the Internet, but believe me what I'm about to let you know right now is true and existing issue.

I am Mr. Hanan Al Mazem, the newly appointed Manager of National bank of Abu-Dhabi United Arab Emirates , at the ADNOC CASH-OFFICE Branch,

I wish to know if we can work together. I would like you to stand as the beneficiary to my deceased client Mr. Morris Thompson, who made some deposits of $25 ( Million United States Dollars) with my bank.

You can visit this web site to confirm my information's to you at
ALASKA AIRLINE FLIGHT 261. http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

He died without any registered next of kin and as such the funds now have an open beneficiary mandate.

If you are interested you do let me know so that I can give you comprehensive details on what we are to do for the funds to be wired into your account, before my meeting with you for the disbursement of the fund in the ratio of 60% for me and 40% for you, I urgently hope to get your response as soon as possible as to enable us expedite action.

Awaiting your urgent

Yours Sincerely.
Mr. Hanan Al Mazem.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam