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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • usairaq_johnengland@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "John England ," <info06@usarmycontractor.co.cc>
Reply-To: usairaq_johnengland@live.com
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 15:55:54 +0100
Subject: Good Morning


Dear Friend,

Permit the manner with which I am seeking your
assistance but I am short of options and have no other
choice.I am John England from the hospitality state
(Mississippi), an army contractor attached to the US
Military force in Iraq. The reason why I'm explaining
my findings to you is to seek for your assistance to
enable you contribute immensely to the actualization
of my dream.

I am attached to the US army for the sole purpose of
reconstruction work in some parts of Iraq.As you very
well know, Iraq is gradually undergoing a rebuilding
process in some parts and there is much need for
reconstruction which is were I come in. I evaluate the
level of destruction and offer professional advice in
line with the way they intend rebuilding.Work has been
risky no doubt and challenging as sometimes we are
faced head on with armed insurgents where we lose some
soldiers during confrontation. I have had my own share
of losses as I lost a friend whom I have known for 12
years. On the 24th day of MAY 2008,at about 1100
hrs during a normal inspection routine along Haifa
Street where there is long thoroughfare of high-rise
buildings which were built and occupied by the late
Saddam Hussein while he was still alive,I along with
3 soldiers proceeded to a marked site and as I
commenced evaluation work while i was closely guarded
by soldiers, I discovered an unusual bulge in a cellar
which i presumed to be a storage room.

I decided to have a go at it only for me to kick the
metal covering and find a metal boxes(6 in number)
piled on top one another which were locked with a
padlock each. Upon forcing the boxes open, we
discovered several guns, amour and some boxes amongst
which two contained bullets, one filled with hard
drugs(heroine)and the other two to my amazement
contained some US Dollars which amounted to $23.2M
after I and two of the soldiers counted them for about
3 hours. I believe the boxes if not owned are linked
to the Al Qaeda and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

I however instructed them to keep this in high secrecy
so that we can have the money to our selves, they all
agreed to the plan and we were going to get the money
out of the country but first we had to hide the money
in some safe and untraceable location. This made me to
consult with a friend in our force who went with me
and the two other officers to secretly keep the boxes
in a safer place after which we handed over the drugs
and the weaponry to our superiors.

I am now in desperate need of a "Reliable and
Trustworthy" person like you who would receive, secure
and protect these boxes containing the US Dollars for
me up on till my assignment elapses here.We cannot
afford to leave the boxes here in Iraq for any reason
since Iraq is getting unsafe and dangerous everyday.
We have no idea what could happen next as everything
remains inconclusive at this point.I am fully aware of
what your thoughts would be next which is why I intend
to include my picture as well as my I.D.s for you to
know whom you are dealing with.

I assure and promise to give you 15% of this fund,
however feel free to negotiate what you wish to have
as your percentage in this deal.Please assure me of
your keeping this topmost secret within you so that my
job would not be jeopardized.

Please contact me through my personal email address:
usairaq_johnengland@live.com
usairaq_johnengland@yahoo.fr

My Sincere Regards,
John England.

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