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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 state 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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: patrick ali <afp44@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <alifp31@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:56:12 +0100
Subject: ali



Dear friend, Please excuse me if I have infringe into your privacy. This may be strange any way, but I have no option than to mail you. I am Mr patrick Ali, an Sudanese citizen residing in the Capital called Khartoum where you can find a lot of Natural Resources like Petroleum; small reserves of iron ore,copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold.I am convince that you are the right fellow to confide this to. It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture of which I intend to establish in your country. Though I have not met with you, I believe one has to risk confidence in someone to succeed sometimes in life. I have all relative documents amounting to Twelve Million United State Dollars($12,000,000.00 Million) which my late Father deposited with a Bank, of which he wanted to use for his political campaign under this party named: Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement in our Country before he was assassinated. Now as his son, I have decided to invest these money in your country for security and political reasons I will like to invest part of the money into these three investments in your Country, but if there is any other business that is better than what I am suggesting, I will be very glad to follow your advice. 1)Real Estate Investment 2)The Transport Industry 3)Hotels. If you can be of an assistance to me, I will be pleased to offer you 20% or more when discussions continues and any profit made in the investment and if you wish, you can be a share holder in the company. I await your response soonest and please include your direct phone number, full name and contact address for easy communication. Regards, Mr. PATRICK Ali .


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