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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 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:
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • +447040118751 (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.
  • dillonjay@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "free way" <freeway105@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: dillonjay@myway.com
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:13:57 +0000
Subject: THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING.

MR DILLON JAY
NatWest Bank .
135 Bishopsgate,
London ec2m 3ur.uk.



PRIVATE AND URGENT.

Tel+447040118751.
fax
Reply To dillonjay@myway.com

I am contacting you on a business transfer of a huge
sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know
that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that
all will be well at the end of the day. We decided to
contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.
PROPOSITION:
We discovered an abandoned sum of money in an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died
along with his entire family. Since his death, none of
his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay
claims for this money as the heir.
We cannot release the funds from his account unless
someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon
this discovery, we now seek your permission to have
you stand as a next-of-kin to the deceased as all
documentations will be carefully worked out by us for
the funds to be released in your favour as the
beneficiary / next-of-kin. It may interest you to know
that we have secured from the probate an order of
mandamus to locate any of deceased beneficiaries.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by
furnishing me with the following:
1. Name and address (to be used as the Beneficiary)
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers (to contact you)
These requirements will enable us file a letter of
claim to the
appropriate departments for necessary approvals in
your favour before the transfer can be made. We shall
be compensating you upon final conclusion of this
project, while we intend to use the rest for
investment purposes. If this proposal is acceptable by
you, do not take undue advantage of the trust we have
bestowed on you.
I await your urgent response.
Regards,

MR DILLON JAY.

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• What can you do when you receive 419 spam