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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.
• 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.
  • ralisalami10@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Rali Salami." <ralisalami00@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 18:26:17 +0100
Subject: TRANSFER NOTIFICATION.

Hello Dear,

I am Mrs. Rali Salami, the remittance director of our Bank. I have
transferred £225,000 as requested by your partner to the bank account he
gave me, but the bank informs me that there is a problem with the
account, that i went and transfer the fund into a wrong account, so I cant
wire the remaining £275,000 there again. Because they have return back the
first £225,000. Now the total amount is £500,000. So i don't really
know what to do.

Please get back to me ASAP with the correct bank account details or
details for a different account, because the first one your partner sent
to me is a wrong account. So I can try to transfer the total sum of
£500,000 to your account without any problem?

I don't feel comfortable having all that money which belongs to you in
our Bank account, as I wish to transfer the money to you withoin 72
hours if possible. Because your partner said the money is for your
Compensation, as you was trying to assist him to transfer his fund to your
country but you could not, so that is why he authorize me as the
remittance director of our Bank to transfer the £500,000 to you for your
compensation.

Finally, you should try all your best to get back to me after reading
my mail.

Yours,
Mrs. Rali Salami.
ralisalami10@hotmail.com

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