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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand 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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "I am Mr. Vincent Cheng Hoi Chuen" <info@yahoo.co.hk>
Reply-To: cheng.vhc66@live.com
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:54:48 +1100
Subject: Good Day


El programa de detecci=F3n de Spam del sistema "dns1.ciberweb.com.mx", ha
identificado este mensaje como "correo basura". A=F9n as=ED, el
mensaje original no se ha borrado para su chequeo, si lo
era, podr=EDa bloquearlo en su programa de correo (cree un "filtro"
a partir de la etiqueta "X-Spam-Score"). Si tiene alguna duda,
contacte con el administrador para m=E1s detalles.

Contenido: Good Day I am Mr. Vincent Cheng Hoi Chuen, GBS, JP
Chairman of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. Good
Day Our Client, Gen Zaiki Taha Abdel, a businessman and also who was
with the Iraqi forces, made a fixed deposit, of Twenty Four million Five
Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my branch, a number of
notices was sent to him, before the war which began in 2003 and also
after the war but, no response came from him. We later found out that
the General along with his wife and only daughter had been killed during
the war in a bomb blast that hit their home. [...]=20

Detalles del an=E1lisis: (9.5 puntos, 5.0 requeridos)

pts regla aplicada descripci=F3n
---- ---------------------- ---------------------------------------
1.0 UNDISC_RECIPS Valid-looking To "undisclosed-recipients"
-1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP
2.4 MILLION_USD BODY: Talks about millions of dollars
2.9 ADVANCE_FEE_3 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)
3.0 ADVANCE_FEE_4 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)
0.0 ADVANCE_FEE_1 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)
1.6 ADVANCE_FEE_2 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam