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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.
• 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.
  • mrwalterzulu@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "services central" <centralservices4@livedoor.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:10:28 +0200
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT


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Dear Sir,

This morning we got an information that a late customer(Mr. Chung
Timothy)account will be closed and the funds in it will be confisticated by
the bank if the customer next of kin does not come up to make claim for the
funds which is 15.5miilion united states dollars(And for your perusal you
can view this website Ref:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list.

So I have decided to contact you to see if we can do this transaction
together, because I am a banker,I will give you all the information needed
by the bank from you.

This is an opportunity of lifetime and I would not want to miss it.

I will give you the details of the whole process with the believe that you
would not betray me when the fund finally arrive in your account.

Also I want you to kindly maintain the confidentiality aspect of this
transaction.If you are interested send me a reply to
mrwalterzulu@hotmail.com and I will tell you what you need to do.
Mr Walter Zulu.

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