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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:
  • "million 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)
  • "hundred thousand us 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 orphan scam.
• 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.
  • ruth_c_samuel@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: ruth_c_samuel@hotmail.fr
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:04:46 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Hello My Dear


From Ruth Samuel
My Dear,
Please I want to commit this $5.5 Million dollars into your hand)

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which i intend to establish in your country.Though i have not met with you before but i believe, one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.There is huge amount of Five Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars ($5.500.000) which my late Father deposited in a private security company which he wanted to used for his political ambition in our Country before he was assassinated.

Now i have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough for security and political reasons.I want you to help me contact the private security company as my late father's foreign business partner and the beneficiary of the deposited fund and give them immediate instruction to release and trans-ship the box of money to your Country.

As soon as you comfirm the box of money in your possession, I will come over to meet you for the possible investment and continue my education in your country.I will like to invest part of the money into these three investment in your Country but, if there is any other business that is better than my suggestion, I will be very glad to follow your advice. (1.Real estate) ( 2.The transport industry) ( 3. A Five star hotel )

If you can be of an assistance to me i will be pleased to offer to you 25% Of the total fund while the balance will be invested by you.

Please reply to my private e-mail: ruth_c_samuel@hotmail.fr

I await your soonest response.
yours sincerely,

Thanks and God bless.
From Ruth C. Samuel

Anti-fraud resources:

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