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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.
  • raymondleehung@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Lee raymond" <raymondleehung01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: leehung_raymond@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:37:01 +0100
Subject: Response

Senior Management
>From Bank of China, Hong Kong
Email: raymondleehung@yahoo.com.hk,

I am Mr.Lee Raymond Wing Hung, Chief Financial Officer, Bank of China, Tower
Branch,Hong Kong. I have an obscure business proposal for you.Before the U.S
and Iraqi war, our client Aajel Jaber Hassef a Merchant made a fixed deposit
of 24.5million USD,for 18months,in my branch.Upon maturity several notices
were sent to him,during and after the war which began in 2003.We later found
out that my client, his wife and two sons had been killed during the war.
What bothers me most is that according to the laws of my country, at the
expiration of 4years the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong
Government,if nobody applies to claim it.I will like you,as a foreigner,to
stand as next of kin so that we can receive his funds.
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/names.htm

Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.
Kind Regards,
LEE.

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