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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • simeonwang@mailz.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • simeonwang@mailz.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "SIMEON WANG" <simeonwang50@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:24:03 +0000
Subject: Re:Urgent Business Partnership

FROM THE DESK OF:
MR.SIMEON WANG
BRANDBY,WANG & ASSOCIATES
SOLICITORS & LEGAL PRACTITIONERS
VICTORIA CHAMBERS
16-18 STRUHON GROUND
LONDON SW3P 2HP.

ATTENTION:
Please treat this correspondence with utmost urgency.
I am Simeon Wang,a Chinese National with a thriving Legal practice in the
United Kingdom.As a Solicitor and Advocate,I have been opportune to
represent the Legal and Business Interest of several individuals and
corporations.
However i have a business proposition to make to you.It involves a
transaction on behalf of one of my deceased client running into millions of
Pounds Sterlings.As a legal Practitioner and Queens Counsel of the United
Kingdom,I have put in place most documentation’s which conforms with all
laws as regard International Transactions inorder to make this project to be
hitch-free.
If you are interested, please reply immediately to my email box:
simeonwang@mailz.net. Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more
details and relevant documents that will help you understand the
transaction. Please send me your confidential telephone and fax numbers for
easy communication. You should observe utmost confidentiality, and rest
assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us
because I shall require your assistance to invest my share of the dividends
in your country. Awaiting your urgent reply.
Thanks and regards.

Yours truly,

SIMEON WANG QC.
16-18 STRUHON GROUND
LONDON SW3P 2HP.
TEL/FAX:
Email: simeonwang@mailz.net

NB: It is important that you read this proposal carefully, for a better
understanding. Please stand informed that this business proposal remains
genuine and it conforms with all known laws of International transactions.

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