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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • james.info@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "James Price" <jamesprice2@superbee.com.br>
Reply-To: info_drprice01@yahoo.com.au
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:33:45 -0300
Subject: Good Day!!!

 

COMPLIMENTS!!!

 

FROM THE DESK OF DR. JAMES PRICE

 

EMAIL: james.info@yahoo.co.in

 

 

REQUEST FOR PARTNERSHIP: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT!

 

 

My name is Dr. James Price, a 50 year old British born citizen. I head a Seven-man Tenders Board Committee in charge of contracts Award, Vetting, Evaluating and payments. I am presently a group managing director of Shell Petroleum here in (Africa).Your name came highly recommended hence I am contacting you for an Urgent business proposal (please my apologies for reaching you through this manner)The purpose of this letter to you is to simply ask your hand in Partnership towards the transfer of funds to the tune of US$35,500Mequivalent (Thirty-Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), into a foreign account that you will provide.

 

The funds are ready and with your unalloyed cooperation the source of the funds will be made genuine and legitimate, then the transfer is a 100% hitch-free, timely and totally legitimate too. Needless to say, you don't have entertained any fear as I am quite conversant with all laws governing money transfer or money laundering of any sort. We have designed this transaction in such a way that we shall be successful and its proceed, we shall enjoy with absolute peace of mind even after the successful completion of it all. Also, if you follow my instruction accordingly and promptly, we have design this transaction to meet with at the most 10-21 banking days from the receipt of what I will require of you. At this time I can not divulge further information regarding this proposal until there exists an understanding and trust between us for security reasons.

 

But after receiving this mail and have perused through it and you are interested, please do respond back via my private email:james.info@yahoo.co.in ONLY! If otherwise, please do regard this as trash and treat as such and my sincere apologies for contacting you at all. On the other hand, should this proposal meet your interest we have decided to give you a negotiable percentage from the entire sum, hoping that this will be satisfactory.

 

Thank you for your much anticipated urgent response.

 

Respectfully,

Dr. James Price

E-mail: james.info@yahoo.co.in

 

 

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