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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Mark Anderson" <markanderson200@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:10:36 +0100
Subject: From Mark Urgent Reply.

Attn: VICTIMNAME

Dear Sir,

It’s my wish this mail meets you in perfect condition over there!!

This is to acknowledge the receipt of your mail with contents of your mail
well noted and understood and I must not fail to thank you for your response
to my proposal though i have been waiting to here from you for long.

Let me use this opportunity to shade more light to your understanding in
regards to this project

Like you did read in my proposal that my client is interested going into
partnership investment with a trusted and a reliable some one from your
country good a thing you have the qualifications we need in regards to this
investment above all accept to handle this investments project
professionally and secretly confidential as required by my client.

Further more, the said fund is a genuine fund that was accrued by my
client during his active service in the office as a chairman of the contract
award committee, and the said fund was a gratification from some of the
contract that he awarded contractors during his tenure in the office.

In the light of the forgoing, my client is willing to entrust this fund
into your care for a long-term investment into the line of your business,
but this investment will be in place for a minimum period of FIVE (5) years
after which there will be a REVIEW of the investments and all non-profitable
investments will be discontinued.

Further more, fund will be released to you for investment if my client is
satisfied with your suggestions after normal signing of contract and
Partnership agreement to protect all interests in the project. if are ready
to go into partnership investment with my client and invest this fund, then
you have to forward to me the following information.

1, your contact mailing address
2, your direct telephone and fax number for easy communication
3, You are to recommend viable areas of the economy to be invested in.
4, You should among other things provide logistics proving that the area
suggested will make for a wise investment.

I can as well be reached on this number 234-8067220039

Best Regards as I wait for your urgent reply.

Barr. Mark Anderson.

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