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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "million 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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <davidmoore_1@live.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 00:26:41 +0000
Subject: Business Relationship



Dear sir/madam,

Please do not think this email is wrongly sent to you. I have deliberately sent it to you to solicit your assistance in my present ambition. For introduction sake, my name is Dr.David Moore. I am the financial controller of my corporation.
I have presently used this position to acquire the sum of Twenty Five Million United States dollars. Please here in this proposal, I want to be brief but I must say that my purpose of writing this email to you to solicit your help so I can transfer this fund out of my country. Presently I have kept this fund in a suspense account where no one can dictate it because I cannot keep it in my local account. I am a serving officer so I am forbidden by law to own a foreign private account. So I hope to secure and operate a foreign account through you.

Please do not just read and throw this information away thinking it is not true. By the time you reply to me, I will give you full details and I will move this fund to your bank account immediately. Please I am in distress; I need your assistance so that my effort in getting this fund out of the treasury will not be in vain. I have been hiding this fund since four years now and this is not good for me.

I have very well considered that I must compensate you for this assistance which I will discourse with you in details in course of our discussion. Please I do not want to write much here now, I expect to receive your positive reply then I shall discuss this at length with you. I know you may be surprised and think this information is by error to you or you may think this is just an internet junk, but I must make it more clear to you after I receive your reply and I shall send you every necessary information you may require to know. Please I need your partnership and assistance to secure this fund. Note that as I receive your reply, I shall arrange a meeting for both of us to meet as there is no way we can get this done without physical contact. I am ready to come to meet you.
All I require from you is your honest cooperation and please send the Following information to me: 1. Your Full Name.2. Your Direct Phone and Fax Number.3. Your Home and office address.4. Your Age.5. Your Occupation
Please through my Private mailbox:davidmoore_1@live.comDr.David Moore

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