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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.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • elviswest4@yahoo.co.uk
  • elviswest@fastmail.fm (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "elvis west" <elviswest@fastmail.fm>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:47:31 -0800
Subject: Hope to hear from you soonest

Dear Sir
It's my pleasure to contact you with this proposal.
I shall require your assistance to invest in your country
I got your contact on my private search on the Internet
Please read this mail because it has immense financial benefits for
the both of us.I am the Director of Projects Federal Ministry of
Finance/Chairman foreign contract committee. By the virtue of my
position and the power bestowed on us by the Federal Government of
Nigeria, We carefully and deliberately over invoiced some contracts in
my ministry to the tune of FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US
DOLLARS.

The contracts have been fully executed and commissioned and payments are
about to be made to all foreign contractors. Hence, I want you to assist
me with a foreign account anywhere that can be used to receive the over
invoiced sum for our mutual benefits since the law of my country does
not permit us as a civil servants to own a foreign bank account while in
the service.We have agreed that you will be rewarded with 30% of the
fund for your assistance in receiving the fund on our behalf.

To commence this transaction, we require you to indicate your interest
by a return e-mail and enclose the following informations:-
1) Full name and address.2) Your private telephone number
3)Your Bank name and address.
Thanks for your co-operation. Hope to hear from you soonest.
REPLY ON: elviswest4@yahoo.co.uk
Regards,
Elvis west
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