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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:
  • "hundred thousand us 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.
  • hananaaali@latinmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: hananaaali18888@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:46:09 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hanan=20Dhari=20Ali=20Al=2DFayadh=2E?=

Dear,
I am Hana Ali,the Only Child of Late Asad Dhari Ali Al-Fayadh (Prominent
Iraqis House of Assembly Member ) who was killed along with three of his
bodyguards and my brother in a suicide bomb attack in neighborhood of Rashdiya
Northern Baghdad,while my mother died of heart attack two weeks after my
fathers death .

View the Website below for detail Story of how I lost my influential parents.


http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/28/iraq.main/

My late and beloved father deposited a huge amount($115.500.000.00)one
hundred fifty million, five hundred thousand US dollars in a prime bank
in Eur precisely .

All I need from you is an assistance to transfer the fund to your country
for investment and i will come over to join you in your country IN CONCLUSION,


IF YOU WANT TO ASSIST US , I SHALL PUT YOU IN THE PICTURE OF THE BUSINESS,
TELL YOU WHERE THE
FUNDS ARE CURRENTLY BEING MAINTAINED AND ALSO DISCUSS OTHER MODALITIES
INCLUDING REMUNERATION FOR YOUR SERVICES. I WANT YOU TO ASSIST IN INVESTING
THIS MONEY,

BUT I WILL NOT WANT MY IDENTITY REVEALED. I WILL ALSO WANT TO BUY PROPERTIES
AND STOCK IN MULTI-NATIONAL COMPANIES AND TO ENGAGE IN OTHER SAFE AND NON-SPECULATIVEINVESTMENTS.

MAY I AT THIS POINT EMPHASISE THE HIGH LEVEL OF CONFIDENTIALITY,WHICH THIS
BUSINESS DEMANDS, AND HOPE YOU WILL NOT BETRAY THE TRUST AND CONFIDENCE,
WHICH I REPOSE IN YOU. after the transfer is done.

I will give you 15% of the total sum (sharing ration is Negotiable} but
most of all is that I solicit your trust

Yours sincerely,
Hanan Dhari Ali Al-Fayadh.


PLS KINDLY REPLY ME WITH THIS EMAIL ADDRESS(hananaaali@latinmail.com)

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