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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "united state of america" (this email uses bad English)
  • "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "a diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist 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.
  • mr_gwil@o2.pl (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "General Wilson Scott" <mr_gwil@sina.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mr_gwil@o2.pl
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:42:04 +0800
Subject: Form Wilson Scott, US Army presently in Iraq.

Dear sir/ Madam,
My name is Wilson scott, [ United State of America ] Army presently in Iraq.I need your urgent assistance to help me carry out a transaction.
Please dont discard this email,as the first thing that may come to your mind is Scam.Please this is not Scam,it is real and genuine,I got your
contact from a directory on the internet.
There is no point for me to tell you of the story of Iraq,as I am sure you are aware of it because is not a strange event.
As a US Army in Iraq,I was opportune to make so huge amount of money $6,5M USD [ Six million and five hunderd thousand Dollars] and also
acquire 200 kILO Gramme of Gold.Although the money and Gold is acquired during the War crises,I managed to arrange the money and the Gold in
a box,with the help of a Diplomat who moved it down to China. The Dilpomat does not know there is money in the Box,he thought it is only Gold
that is in the box.
Base on my present situaion,I can not come out of Iraq to invest the money in a relaible business,hence I am contacting you to help me to pick up
the money and GOLD from the Diplomat in China. If you can help me I will give you the Diplomat contact in China,for you to contact him and
arrange with him to get the box containing the money delivered to you,so that you can help me to invest the money in a reliable business on my
behalf,so that after I leave Iraq I will come over to your country to meet with you.
I am prepared to give you 20% of the total money if you can help me.
Please I want this transaction to be private becasue as a US Army it is not permited for us to acquire such money and valuables,hence I want it
private.
I want you to reply me through my private email ( mr_gwil@o2.pl ) so that I can give you the contact of the Diplomat in China.
Thanks for your anticiapated understanding.
Your Friend and partner,
Wilson scott.

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