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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:
  • "might come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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 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.
  • purchasqc24@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Richard Duke" <rich_duki1@myway.com>
Reply-To: purchasqc24@aim.com
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:47:48 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE


I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCEThis letter might come to you as a surprise as we have not met before,but I believe that you would be compelled to help me after going through the contents of this letter. My name is Mr Richard Duke, a divorcee, I am a Zimbabwean.I am a farmer in Zimbabwe. Basically, I was involved in Agricultural production, until August (2003), when the government of Robert Mugabe decided to seize all farm-land(s) owned by whites in Zimbabwe (without compensation). He (Robert Mugabe) did not stop at that he also went on to expel all White farmers in Zimbabwe.He implored the services of his war veterans to undertake his seizure. The war veterans have been accused (correctly) of being behind the violent occupation of white-owned commercial farms in which an estimated 70,000 farm workers have been displaced. At least, over hundreds white farmers and black settlers have been killed since the farm invasions began in February
2000.Link{www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/special/0,10627,536901,00.html}Although we know that we are taking a great risk by staying here in Zimbabwe.At the Moment, our phone lines are bugged, and all our movements are being monitored by Zimbabwea (Robert Mugabes)secret Police. Therefore email is the safest means of communication for now. We (White farmers in Zimbabwe) have taken our case to the United Nations and even with the threats of transactions and the subsequent sanctions from the West against the Zimbabwean Authorities, Robert Mugabe (The president of Zimbabwe) still remains adamant. He is insisting that our farm land (some of which we bought with our money and most of which We inherited from our fathers) belongs to the (his) government of Zimbabwe. Since I could not keep the money in Zimbabwe, I used the services of a Diplomatic Courier Company to move this money (registered as official documents) out of Zimbabwe to Abroad.At present, my money totaling US$17,750,000.
(Seventeen million, seven hundred and fifty thousand United States Dollars) is in oversea and hopefully, it would be paid into an offshore account. Can you help me? Are you trustworthy? Can you handle this money? Are you capable of handling this money? If you can,please contact me with my private E-mail: purchasqc24@aim.com All you need to do is to claim this money from the Courier Company. For your assistance, you will be entitled to 20% of the total sum. You are also obliged to help/advise on the proper and most convenient way of investing this money in your country, hopefully, You will consider this request and respond positively.Yours sincerely,Richard Duke my private E-mail: purchasqc24@aim.com

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