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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:
  • "chief auditor" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: jjl fde <jjlfaj@msn.com>
Reply-To: <jjlfdet@live.fr>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:47:50 +0000
Subject: BUSINESS



Greetings,It's Just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction. I am a banker by profession and currently holding the Post Of chief auditor in charge of debt recovery in our Bank.I have the opportunity of transfering an unclaimed funds ($10Million) belonging to one of my client who died in an automobile accident in 2003 having no one coming up to claim his funds and if left unclaimed will be transfered to the government treasury by the bank.Hence, I am inviting you for a business deal where we can facilitate to the transfer of this fund and have promised 40 as your percentage once we are through, if you agree to my business proposal.Further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive your mail.Yours,MR ERNEST JONES.

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