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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.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +44
• 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.
  • m.eldridge1@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Michael Eldridge" <konicalinstrument2@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:33:55 +0000
Subject: TENTATIVE OFFER OF SCRAP METAL HMS1&2.

Konica Instruments Ltd.
Longmeadow drive,
Barnstaple, North Devon,
United Kingdom.

Attn: The Managing Director/ C.E.O

Dear Sir,
TENTATIVE OFFER OF SCRAP METAL HMS1&2.
Compliments! I am a director with the above organization
and I am contacting you via this correspondence to offer to you scrap
metals of grade HMS1&2 in used railway lines as well as used copper cables
in West Africa which have been offered to us in the capacity of a consulting
firm to source interested buyers for the scrap for contractual buying of up
to thirty thousand Metric tonne monthly (30MT/Mth.) over a period of three
years or more depending on the outcome of our negotiations and understanding
as per price and general modus operandi.
Please respond as soon as possible
should you have an interest in scrap purchase of the afore-mentioned
grades and we shall go into details of the sales purchase agreement
nevertheless if otherwise then an acknowledgment of receipt of this mail
shall be well appreciated.
Looking forward to doing business with you and hoping to
hear from you soonest.
Kind regards,
Michael Eldridge.
Director,
Konica Instruments Ltd.
Tel: +44.704.019.7147
Fax: +44.870.10.6015
Email: m.eldridge1@hotmail.com

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