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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:
  • "barr." (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.
  • attorneymark_4law@yahoo.com
  • juliana_jones_04@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: david karl <davekarls004@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:44:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED


Dearest,

I want to apologies for intruding into your life so unexpectedly, am Mrs juliana Jones from United Kingdom, residing in london London. I work with Diamond Trust Security Company "DTSC" newton, london. meanwhile i got your contact from the information centre here in london. My husband Adams Jones was a dealer in jewelries and Gold and its quite unfortunitely for me that my husband died August 16, 2005, West Caribbean Airways Flight 708. West Caribbean Airways charter flight which crashed in a mountainous region in northwest Venezuela on the morning of Tuesday, killing all 152 passengers and eight crew.
You can read more about the crash on visiting these sites below,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Caribbean_Airways_Flight_708

There are this jewelries which my husband shipped to United States of America now reach to its destination when adams my husband died .i want you to help in this field
because as a woman and a novice in jewelries, this goods are valued about Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars($750.000). I need a hand in partnership with you. It happen to be that since my husband died with his partners Mr Bradley Long in crashed, now the port authority hook me as the beneficiary but they told me that the jewelries are too much to own by one person so my lawyer now advice me to look for a partner in this jewelries business. So that's why i need you . I will wait your respond so that i can know what to do next, am willing to give Two hundred and fifty thousand dollers. ($250.000 )if you will be sincerely and willing to help me.

I'm sending a copy of this information to my Attorney Barr. mark ESQ and you can also get to my lawyer oh his private email address--
attorneymark_4law@yahoo.com
you can also visit his website http://www.friedmantriallawyers.com
Pls, get back to me through my private email address
juliana_jones_04@yahoo.co.uk

Best Regard,




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