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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:

• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024015426 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • raytrustbank1@mail.com
  • raytrustbank1@sify.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Customer Banking" <raytrustbank@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:16:02 +0000
Subject: THE TRUST BANK LIMITED CENTRAL LONDON UNITED KINGDOM

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

Attention: Director/CEO,

I am Dr Raymond Brock,
foreign remmitance director with The Trust Bank Limited
central london united kingdom
During our last auditing, I discovered a lump sum
of $45.000.000.00(Forty five Million U.S Dollars) in our treasury
unclaimed for
the past eleven years. After much verification with one
of my
colleagues in the office Mr. Roland Knights, we found out that
the
fund belongs to a dead head of state to one of the country in east
Africa with an open beneficiary to the account. In other words, no
body knows that the account actually exist.
First I must solicit for
your confidence in this deal, this is by virtue of its nature as
being
purely confidential. Though I know that a deal of this
magnitude, will
make anyone apprehensive and worried but we are
assuring you that all
will be taking care off legally and will be well
at the end of the
deal. Off course, we won't be writing you if we are
not going to be
successful.We decided to contact you due to the
urgency of the
transaction,knowing fully well that you will be
interested in taking
the opportunity.

Based on this discovery as an influence in the bank,
I have decided to confide in you this business proposal for your
consideration and to release the totality sum
mentioned above for our
individual betterment as partners, which every
necessary arrangement
has been made and guaranteed for uncomplicated
remittance into
whichever nominated account of your choice as the
original beneficiary
to the said fund, all we need to do upon your
acceptance to
participate in this hitch free transaction is to insert
your
name/particulars in the treasury account legally as the owner of
the
fund and commence operation fully for transfer to your account.

We
will guide and advise you properly on how to make this transaction
a
reality if you decide to accept the offer. Once you accept the
offer,
You will be entitle to 30% of the Total fund As the beneficiary of the
said
account.

DearFriend, if this meets your attention, do
not hesitate to call me on my direct line: +447024015426 for more
discussion relating to this matter. You can also use my confidential
email:raytrustbank1@mail.com/raytrustbank1@sify.com

Best Regards
Dr Raymond brock
Foreign Remmitance Director
Trust bank Limited central london united kingdom.

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