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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "the consignment " (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "courier service" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
• This email message is a "dying merchant" scam.
• 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.
  • jamesclayton101@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Sgt James Clayton <jamesclayton8003@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:31:23 -0500
Subject: Your Mail



Dear Friend,, I hope my email meets you well. My name is Sgt .James. Clayton (American soldier). I am in the Engineering military unit here in Baghdad in Iraq , with Oesophageal cancer which has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few weeks/months to live, according to medical experts. My late 2 colleagues who died last week in a bomb blast and I found a huge sum of $25 Million dollars in Baghdad neighbourhood.You can visit the website: (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm) We have successfully moved the money out of the country to a Bank in Spain via a diplomatic courier service. I am contacting you because i want you to help with claiming of this merchandise and help me distribute them to charity organizations and homeless people. I feel distributing the funds would be a way to appease the LORD and also want God to be merciful to me and my late friends and also accept our souls ,because we have killed so many in the war, but we were only serving our country. I have decided to give this sum of $25 Million dollars to charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth. I am single,my family died in a car accident years ago and i vowed on my son and wife grave never to get married.Hence,i decided to join the force. I guess it is time for me to go join my family as i see my beautiful wife and my son in my dreams. I really want you to help me collect this consignment and dispatched it to charity organizations like i have said earlier. Your reward in helping me do this shall be 25% of the total sum and 5% for any expenses you would incure during the process of you getting the $25 Million dollars transfered to you.The most important thing is that, can i trust you ones the funds get to you? and also would you distribute the balance 70% to charity organizations? Your own duty is to contact the Bank in Spain on how the consignment can be released and sent down to you and also find a safe place where the funds can be kept. If you are interested, kindly forward to me all your full informations such as your Full names, Telephone,Fax,Contact address, Age, Occupation e.t.c to my private email address (jamesclayton101@gmail.com) and i will let you know what to do next. But the whole process is simple and we must keep a low profile at all times because if the authorities are aware of the funds, it would be seized and used for purchasing ammunitions and irrelevant accessories which would have been better used for the sick and homeless kids dying with hunger. I am awaiting your urgent response on my private email address ( jamesclayton101@gmail.com)

Regards. SGT .JAMES CLAYTON




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