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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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.
  • hananalmaze_m@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr. Hanan Al Mazem. <hananalmaze_m@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 04:31:50 -0800
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT


FROM THE DESK OF MR. HANAN AL MAZEM.
BRANCH OPERATIONAL MANAGER
NATIONAL BANK OF ABU-DHABI,
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.
Email: hananalmaze_m@yahoo.com

Salam

This must be confidential to everybody until our transaction is over.
I am Mr. Hanan Al Mazem, the new Manager of National bank
of Abu-Dhabi United Arab Emirates , at the ADNOC CASH-OFFICE Branch.
I will wish if you put this into consideration. I would like to make you the =

Beneficiary to my deceased client Mr. Morris Thompson, who made some deposits =

of $9.700, 000 (Nine Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)
with my bank.

You can visit this web site to confirm my information's to you at
ALASKA AIRLINE FLIGHT 261. =
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
He died without any registered next of kin and as such the funds now have an =
open
beneficiary mandate, which i am in position to provide any body as next of =
kin.
I can give you comprehensive details on what we are to do for the funds to be =
wired
into your account, if you are willing to do it. The fund will be divided into =
two part
you will have 30% percent of the money, 20% percent for charity =
home(motherless home)
and 50% percent for my self.

I will be glad if your responds is granted and made fast for immediate =
transaction.
Awaiting your urgent and positive response via my private email: =
hananalmaze_m@yahoo.com.

Yours Sincerely
Mr. Hanan Al Mazem.

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