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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)
  • "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)
  • "hundred thousand u.s 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)
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
• This email message is a "dying merchant" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: tari preye <taripreye00043@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <drtarirolandpreye@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 08:58:08 +0100
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED



Dear Friend,
My name is Dr.Tari Roland Preye, a Petrol Chemical Contractor a in West Africa and a citizen of the New Zealand I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer It has defiled all forms of medical treatment,and right now I have only about a few months to live,according to medical experts.

I have spent all i have on this illness and now, i am left with nothing except this fund ($16.5Million United States Dollars). I have not particularly lived my life so well,as I never really cared for anyone (not even myself) but my business.Though I am very rich, But now I regret all this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in the world.

I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world I would live my life a different way from how I have lived it. Now that God has called me,I have willed and given most of my properties and assets to my immediate and extended family members as well as few close friends.

I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul so,I have decided to give also to poor and less priviledged ones in the society such as victims of Katrina in New Orleans and Sunami victims in South East Asia as my contribution to man kind, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly,I cannot do this myself anymore.

I once asked members of my family to close one of my accounts and distribute the money which I have there to Ophanage homes in Asia and South America,they refused and kept the money to themselves. Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with what I have left for them.

You will be compesated with 10% of the total fund for assisting for the distribution of this funds. The last of my money which no one knows of is the huge cash deposit of $16.5Million(Sixteen million,five hundred thousand u.s dollars) that I have with a Diplomatic courier company.I will want you to help me receive this fund and dispatched it to charity organizations. May Almighty God be with you.

Dr.Tari Roland Preye.


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