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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:
  • "money orders " (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)
  • "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)
  • "cashiers check" (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.

Fraud email example:

From: "stewart_artwork@terra.es" <stewart_artwork@terra.es>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 02:38:21 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Work from home***Not junk mail***



Work from home***Not junk mail***
Stedowning Art Gallery.
405 Kings Road,
Chelsea, London SW10 0BB
United Kingdom.
Phone/fax : 447024037753

Goodday,

Its my pleasure to introduce to you myself, I'm Stewart Downing, A 37 years old man who already have his own home business, my company Stedowning
Art Gallery is located at my house, I'm a man with a family, my wife, A girl and 2 grown up boys. I live with a friendly Yorkshire Terrier
puppy who is about 2 months old no, A cat name Mabel.. I live in a house of my own and have heard problem on one thing or the other. I know this
emailand introduction will be a surprise to you but I need your help in the sense that I deal with so many customers around the world mostly in
Kuwait, Malaysia, South Africa, Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, Canada, United state of America and Mexico, I've found representative
in other countries who will be assisting in recieving payment from my customers in their country except for Mexico, Canada,Malaysia and United
state. and since you came from the united state I believe you might be able to help in recieving fund. some brief explanations on what you are
to do is below.

Clients of mine will issue payment on your name for it to be easy for you to cash at your financial Institution, they mostly want to pay with
a cashiers check or US Money Order and this cannot be cashed in a UK banks, so as soon as the check is recieve by you with you name on it, you
will take it to your bank deposit it and wait till it finally clears your financial institution and then deduct your own part of the money for
the service which is %10 of any amount a client send to you, Then you wire the remaining balance to me via Western union Money Transfer not A
cashiers check again because If I had been able to cash US cashiers check and money orders then I would not be needing a rep in doing that for
me but due to the fact that it turns the other way round. I believe this is Understood but the only problem I have here is Trust. I never can
trust anybody from anyother country for assisting in this transaction without him/her going through a physical or oral interview. I have deal
with a lot of people from United state of America and none of them has betray or in anyway offended me by cheating so I believe everybody from
that state should have the kind of Spirit of God in those that I've transacted with. If you are interested in assisting email me the below
information for documentation. Your information is not been recieved for spam or anything of such.

First Name:
Last name:
Sex:
Age:
Home, Office and Mobile phone number:
Address:
City:
State:
Zipcode:
Best Communication you prefer : Phone or Email.

Thanks for your anticipated help.
Regards
Stewart Downing






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