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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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Jun Shun" <junshun4444@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:03:53 +0000
Subject: Dear Hr. Roth Thaller, this is my persona; mail box .Jun Shun.

Dear Hr. Roth Thaller,

 

Good day and hope you are in reciept of my mails, i have done my possible best to communicate you but to no avial.

 

I am contacting you again from my personal and private mail box.

 

Respond to either mails urgently and let me know if you have been contacted by the customer and if the customer has made payment as promised to our account department.

 

Get back to me and keep me posted full details ASAP.

 

 

My Regards,

 

Jun Shun.

 

 

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