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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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• 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.
  • frdvoughan2000@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "fred voughan" <fredvoughan2005@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:50:42 +0000
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS REQUEST


Dear Sir
URGENT BUSINESS REQUEST
I am a Solicitor resident and practicing in the United Kingdom, I am using
this correspondence to urgently seek and request your assistance and
cooperation in a sensitive but highly beneficial
financial arrangement.

An important client of mine whose details I cannot release at this point
has implored me to contact a reliable and trustworthy partner overseas to
urgently receive and handle funds totaling TWENTY ONE MILLION US
DOLLARS(US$21.M)in CASH presently lodged in a
security/finance outfit in overseas. Due to my client inability to travel
out of the country presently and the fact that we continue to accumulate
huge debts daily as long as this consignment remains in the security
company we need a friend and partner to proceed as soon as possible and
handle it as might be instructed.

We have agreed in principle to give twenty five - percent (25%) of the
total sum to whom ever shall handle this funds for us while the remaining
sixty-five percent (65%)shall be for my client and
ten-percent (10%) for me as the attorney as soon as you are ready to
proceed and retrieve this cash on our behalf we shall furnish you with
the details and information you will need.

Please be rest assured that this arrangement is absolutely risk free and
cannot implicate you in any way yet I implore you to handle this matter with
urgency and utmost confidence even if you do not intend to execute the
project for us. Whatever is the case please acknowledge receipt of this
mail via the below Email address and if your response is positive we
shall proceed immediately without any delay.

frdvoughan2000@yahoo.co.uk

Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation and hoping to hear from
you soon.
Yours sincerely,
fred voughan ESQ.

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