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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:
  • "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)
  • "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024032493 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Emmanuel George <private.em12@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <egeorge1@onet.eu>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:53:29 -0400
Subject: Greetings



Dear Sir,Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal Ethics and you should not be much surprised on this urgent assistance needed from you,I introduce myself as Mr. Emmanuel George an operational manager in account management section in charge of credit and foreign bills in a well-known bank here in the United Kingdom. On a routine inspection, I discovered a dormant domiciliary account with Balance of US$48,500 000.00 (fourty Eight million Five Hundred Thousand U.S dollars Only). The account holder was in charge of President Saddam Hussein's secret crude oil transactions in Asia . On further discreet investigation, I discovered that the account holder died long ago with his family on a fatal Auto-accident leaving no beneficiary to the account and no other person knows about it. I am in close contact with the bank manager here who is my partner and is willing to approve the transfer to any reliable and trustworthy foreigner with foreign bank account because the former owner of the a/c is a foreigner. The account has no written or oral WILL attached to it. I will provide the necessary information and documents needed in order to claim this money if you agree to receive this fund in your account pending my arrival in your country for sharing and on receipt of your Bank Account Details where the fund will be transferred.We will start the transfer of USD38, 000,000. At the end, 75% will be for me and my partner,20% for you and 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred on both sides during the transfer. United Kindom Civil Service Code of Conduct Laws that prohibits Civil Servants from operating Private Foreign Accounts.
Sir,going by your profiles and your location I know you can handle this transaction very well.
Your cooperation is highly needed.
Yours Faithfully,Mr. Emmanuel George+ 44 7024032493


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