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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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.
  • +447023056794 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448701223556 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • psfuk@diplomats.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • sclarkepsfcb@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Mary Jones" <mary_jones100@excite.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:26:13 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Contact the finance company immediately.




Hello beloved, Am in receipt to your email response, Firstly, let me quickly put it clear and point blank to you that i am a woman of great faith and i have love for humanity. I am presently in Alsalam Hospital Kuwait at "Al Salam Hospital ,P.O.Box 11023 Dasma 35151 Kuwait city, going through Oesophageal cancer treatment.Without wasting much time as i do not know how soon i may join my acestors ,I am going to send to you below, the contact informations of the finance and security company to enable you expedite the claims transfer from their security custody on my behalf. Find below the informations herein;PROFILE SECURITY &amp; FINANCE CONSULTANCY. BEREAU 128 Christchurch Rd,Bournemouth,Dorset.BH1 3LH.United Kingdom.Tel: +44 702 305 6794Fax: +44 870 122 3556Email: psfuk@diplomats.com Website:http://www.psfdiplomats.8m.com Moreso,i have included a copy of the certificate of deposit and a specimen Application/Notification below for you to retype, Fill your Name,
Address, Telephone, Fax number, Email address and then fax it to the Finance company in U.K today at the fax numbers given below, if you dont have a fax machine you could either email the application/notification to: { psfuk@diplomats.com } or the officer in charge personal email contacts on: { sclarkepsfcb@yahoo.co.uk }Please,endeavour to assist charity organisations,aids victims in your country and to ensure that the house of the less priviladge is also maintained financially. Before doing this, you should feel free to keep/reimburse yourself 20% for your assistance/time and save 30% for me in your care pending if i survive this cancer , This should be deducted from the total funds upon when you have received it from the Finance and Security company.Also, I want you to know something, I am trusting you to do this because I believe that I have made the right choice and that you are a trustworthy person .Please email me back as I will want to finalise this as soon
aspossible.Please understand that confidence and trust bestowed on you is enormous.Let me hear from you at your earliest convenience.I hope that trust bestowed on you will be fully act upon on the said project.May love for humanity be in constant control with you to see this project through.Do let me know as soon as you are done with them and their response to this as well.I await your earliest response,Mrs Mary. Jones.==================================================Your Full Names :Address:Tel/Fax:Email:The Director or Account officer in Charge,International Remittance Division,Profile Security &amp; Finance Consultancy Bureau128 Christchurch Rd,BournemouthDorsetBH1 3LH.United Kingdom.Tel: +44 702 305 6794Fax: +44 871 661 9317Email:psfuk@diplomats.com Dear Sir/madam,REF: Mrs Mary Jones-NOTIFICATION FOR FUNDS TRANSFER OF US$8.6MILLION ( EIGHT MILLION SIX HUNDRED THAUSAND U.S.DOLLARS) WITH ACCOUNT NO: 14-255-201-9/PSFBC/T :I write on behalf of the above name who has asked
me to contact you over the above stated funds in your finance company which I have been made a sole/subsequent beneficiary to receive the said funds that were deposited with your Finance &amp; Security company by the late Mr .Jones(husband). I believe Mrs Jones has already gotten in touch with you to give you my personal details and a letter of authorization for immediate release to me.I will be most grateful if you can furnish me with your procedures for the claimsbenefited sucessfully. Yours faithfullyYour Name,and date.

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