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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +447024061243 (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.
  • david_2coleman@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "david coleman" <david.coleman_5@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: david_1coleman@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:55:59 +0000
Subject: REPLY SOON

From Mr David coleman

57 Victoria street,

London swih,

p.o box 3038,

+447024061243

Attention

Please, I feel obliged writing this mail to you. I am not quite exposed to

foreign business and friends hence i write to you with hope and trust that

you will welcome my mail without being bias and that you will be trust

worthy to me.

In order to transfer out 12,500,000.00 ( Twelve million, five hundred

thousand British pounds) from our bank (Firm). I have the courage to look

for a reliable and Honest Person who will be capable of handling this

Important Business transaction, believing that you will never let me down

either now or in Future.

The owaner of this account is Mr. David Hagen foreigner and the Manager Of

petrol chemical service,

a chemical engineer by Proffession and he died since 1990.the account has no

other beneficiary And my Investigation proved to me as well that his company

does not know anything About this account.

I want to transfer this money into a safe foreign account abroad but i Don't

know any foreigner,i know that this message will come to you as a surprise

as we have not had any correspondence before and you have to addmite that we

don't know ourselves before,but due to the strict confident and your

versatility in business that motivated my interest to seek your co-opration

in this business magnitude of this nature and by your 99.9% reliability and

streight fowardness given about you that sticked my intrest in revealing

this top secret to you.

But be sure that it is real And A Genuine business as I believe in God that

you will never let me down in this transaction till the fund is remitted to

your norminated account while i will travell to your respective country to

collect my own share of the money, and we have concluded that at the

conclusion of this business,you will be offer 30% of the total amount while

70% will be for me . I look forward to your earliest reply by email for more

details.

david_2coleman@yahoo.com

Best regard

Mr David coleman

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