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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • contactvice@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "larry davis" <larrydavis3@sympatico.ca>
Reply-To: contactvice@yahoo.de
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:10:53 +0000
Subject: transaction

Dear Sir
I am attorney to Audit Committee of one of European Union
leading banks.
The hunt for President of Chile, Augusto Pinochet unearthed a
sophisticated
array of bank accounts and offshore hiding places.
In our routine duty as Members of the Audit Committee of Coutts
Bank,
we discovered over $51 Mn floating in the suspense account of
Coutts Bank here in the UK.Further inquiry revealed that in the
years past, Cayman Island Government Officials transferred a
total sum of $478 Mn from Cayman Island to Coutts Bank as
payment for various contract awarded to foreign contractors and
while $14.8 Million were provided for our committee's
gratification..

The gratification payment has to be transferred as a contract
payment to a third party as none of us members are ethically
legible to apply and receive the fund.
We are offering you the opportunity to be our Front.Please
contact me if you are interested in this transaction. Reply me
through alternative email contactvice@yahoo.de

Barrister Larry Davis

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