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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "hundred thousand 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 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.
  • drzuber001@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: harrison zuber <drzuber06@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:12:49 +0100
Subject: PLEASE YOUR URGENT HELP IS NEEDED



Dear Sir/Madam,

It took me time and divine intervention to write you this mail as we have never had any correspondence before. Actually, I got your e-mail address from the online classified posted on the net. My name is Dr. HARRISON ZUBER. I am a senior doctor in the First Foundation Hospital and Maternity here in the Republic of Benin in west Africa, I am very much interested in a relationship with you for mutual benefits as I have access to what is needed but lack the experience and I am not in a position to perfect it's use.

There is an urgent need for my contacting you as I recently have been opportuned to have access to US$8,500,000.00(eight million five hundred thousand United States Dollars Only). Access to this fund is made available by a woman who happens to be a cancer patient in this hospital for some months now. She is well known in this community and aside being a major real estate agent she is a magnet in environmental management and was a lisencened oil merchant before now.

Unfortunately she has been living and struggling with breast cancer for close to 14 months now though she is unmarried. She has a 12yrs old daughter and I have been looking after her since the break of her horrible dilemma. She has been through a first operation and stille to undergo a final operation within the next few days. I am afraid of her survival after the operation because right now, she suffers from not only cancer but entire body weakness . She is not aware of this fact and still hoping that something positive can be done in her case.

Based on my last discussion with her yesterday afternoon on the future of her daughter should she not be lucky. She said that the fund should be invested. Unfortunately I'm definitely not in a position to run things which is why I seek your assistance in taking control of managing the fund. The fund was deposited in a security company in Europe. She also introdused me to her lawyer who has every details about the security company and how the money can be realised from the security company.

I have resolved with her on an agreement that will be drawn up by you on a yearly charge that will be paid to you for taking control and managing the fund while half of the proceed will be given for the development of treatment of cancer patients. The rest will remain with you for the up keep of her daughter. I will also like to know if you can take the young girl with you as I am a very busy person and may not have all the time to be with her due to the nature of my work.

I pray you to be of assistance to this course and I'd like to add that sometimes I receive unsolicited mails so I hope minel does not come as an embarrassment to you but if it does please kindly accept my apologies and please reply to my private email: (drzuber001@yahoo.it)
Thanks very much and hoping to read from you soon.

Regards,
Dr. HARRISON ZUBER
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