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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:
  • "money order " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• This email message is a company representative scam. This type of job offer scam involves the cashing of fake checks and money orders. It could expose you to losses of tens of thousands of dollars as well as to the risk of criminal prosecution and (in some cases) imprisonment.
• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
• 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.
  • +447024055224 (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.
  • bethyarts@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "beth_woodson2" <beth_woodson2@terra.com.mx>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:31:36 -0600
Subject: PLEASE GET BACK TO ME


I am Beth Woodson, I am an artist. I live in United Kingdom, with the love of my life my husband, and also with my children. It is definitely a full house. I have been doing artwork since I was a small child. That gives me about 26 years of experience. I majored in art in high school and took a few college art courses. Most of my work is done in either pencil or airbrush mixed with color pencils. I have recently added designing and creating artwork on the computer. I have been selling my art for the past 5 to 6 years and have had my work featured on trading cards, prints and in magazines. I have sold in galleries and to private collectors from all around the world before I met my husband. I was very lucky to have a husband within the same field (artist). And both of us have combined in the arts work with versed ideas, which has made our work prosperous and I feel fulfiled. We are always facing serious difficulties when it comes to selling our art works to Americans, most of them are always offering to pay with a US POSTAL MONEY ORDER, which is difficult for us to cash here in United Kingdom.
We are looking for a representative in the states who will be working for us as a part time worker, someone who would be helping us receive payments from my customers in the States. I mean someone that is responsible and reliable and we are willing to pay 10% for every transaction, this would not affect your present state of work. The cost of coming to the States and getting payments has been very expensive, although we working on setting up a branch in the States. So we need a representative in the United States who will be handling the payment aspect for now as I said earlier. These payments would come to you in your name via FedEx or Usps from my business partners, so all you need do is cash the Money Order in your bank, deduct your percentage and wire the rest to me here via Western Union Money Transfer or Money gram Money Transfer. All transfer fees should be deducted from the money before sending it to me. But the problem we have is trust, although we have our way of getting anyone that gets away with our money, I mean the FBI branch in Washington gets involved. If you are interested, please provide this information bellow as this asures our partnership and also reply via this email: bethyarts@yahoo.co.uk
FIRST NAME......... LAST NAME.............
ADDRESS................ CITY..............
STATE................. ZIP CODE.............
COUNTRY.................... PHONE NUMBER (S) ..................
GENDER............. MARITAL STATUS..............
AGE............. NATIONALITY.............
Regards,
Beth Woodson.
+447024055224
+447031821487

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