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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 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.
  • mrsharetadams@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "haret adams" <mrsharetadams@msn.com>
Reply-To: mrsharetadams@excite.com
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:22:42 +0000
Subject: PLEASE URGENT REPLY NEEDED FROM Mrs Haret Adams

Dear Frind,

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal
Ethics.
am mrs Haret Adams,I introduce myself as a staff in the accounts management
Section of
a well-known bank here in the United Kingdom.

One of our accounts with holding balance of £15,000,000(Fifteen Million
British Pounds) has been dormant and last operated in the past 3 years.
>From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account is a
Foreigner from your country is name was Gerald Ulrich died on the 4th of
January 2002 on a plane crash in Birmingham here in UK.

Since then nobody has done anything as regards the claiming of this money
as he has no family Member who is aware of the existence of either the
account
nor the Funds. Information from the National Immigration also states that
he was single on entry into the UK.

I have confidentially discussed this issue with some of the bank officials
and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with. We thus
propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin of these
funds from the deceased and funds released to you after due processes have
been followed.

This transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is
Legitimate
and does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other
Illegal act.

On your interest, let me hear from you. Please you can also reach me here
if you are really interested to do business with us on this one of my
alternative
email address : mrsharetadams@excite.com

Warm Regards,

Mrs Haret Adams

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