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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:
  • "to your nominated bank account" (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 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.
  • +447031839266 (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.
  • dr_henry6@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: dr_henry6@excite.com
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:31:41 +0200
Subject: if you can be trusted


Attn: Dear,

I am Dr. Henry Seely, before anything i ask if you can be trusted, because one of my
late friend deposited the sum of US$3,000,000.00 in a Bank here in Europe, and i went
to the Bank in order to be sure if the said fund is still with the Bank, and the Bank
here in europe has assured me not to be worried about anything that all i needed is to
forward to them my full banking information where the said fund will be transferred to,
and i told them that my Late friend did a contract in your country with you, that before
his death, he wrote a well that the sum ofUS$3,000,000.00 should be transferred into your
account.

Furthermore, all i needed from you is truth and honest, because i don’t want any delay
in this transaction, so as soon as you read my mail, do not fail to reply me with your
direct telephone and fax number together with your full banking information so it will
enable me to forward it to the Bank for them to notify you for onward transfer of the fund,
for your information, the sum of 30% will be for you, why the balance 70% will be for me after
the transferring of the fund to your nominated Bank account. Finally, i will be looking forward
to read from you,and please do not fail to reply on time, so the fund can be transferred to you
before the ending of this week.

Thanks and God bless.
Yours Henry Seely.
+44 703 183 9266
dr_henry6@excite.com

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