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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:
  • "the consignment" (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)
  • "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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a "dying merchant" scam.
• 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.
  • james.clayton76@yahoo.com.sg (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "CIIM MBA" <mba@ciim.ac.cy>
Reply-To: james.clayton76@yahoo.com.sg
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:26:50 +0200
Subject: Your Urgent Help Is Needed By Sgt. James Clayton Rtd.

Hello Buddy,

I hope my email meets you well. My name is Sgt .James Clayton jr. I am in
the Engineering military unit here in Baghdad in Iraq, with Oesophageal
cancer which has defiled all forms of medical treatment,and right now I have
only about a few weeks/month to live,according to medical experts.

My late 2 colleagues who died last week in a bomb blast and I found a huge
sum of $25 Million United State Dollars in Baghdad neighbourhood
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm) that we have
successfully moved out of the country to SPAIN via a diplomat.

I am contacting you because i want you to help with claiming of this
Consignment and help me distribute them to charity organizations and
homeless people.I feel distributing the funds would be a way to appease the
LORD and also want God to be merciful to me and my late friends and also
accept our souls,because we have killed so many in the war, but we where
only serving our country.

I have decided to give this sum 0f $25 Million USD to charity organizations,
as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth.I will want
you to help me collect this consignment and dispatched it to charity
organizations like i have said earlier.

I have set aside 20% for you and your time and any other expenses that you
might have incured in the cause of your making the claims for this
consignment.

The most important thing is that, can I TRUST you Once the funds get to you?
and also would you distribute the rest 80% to charity organizations,Your own
part of this deal is to contact the Security Company on how the consignment
can be released and sent down to your home address and also find a safe
place where the funds can be kept.

If you are interested I will furnish you with more details as soon as i get
your response.The whole process is simple and we must keep a low profile at
all times because if the authorities are aware of this funds,it would be
seized and used for purchasing ammunitions and irrelevant
accessories,whereby we have so many sick, homeless kids dying with hunger
out there.

I am awaiting your urgent response on my private email address:
james.clayton76@yahoo.com.sg

IN GOD WE TRUST!!!!

Regards.

SGT.JAMES CLAYTON
Email: james.clayton76@yahoo.com.sg



---------- DISCLAIMER ----------
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