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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "diplomatic immunity"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "diplomatic unit " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "diplomatic immunity" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +448701343261 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447824013531
• 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.peterwilliams_adu@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ADU LONDON PETERWILLIAMS" <dr.peterwilliams_adu@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:20:56 -0500
Subject: EXTREMELY URGENT FROM AFRICAN DIPLOMATIC UNIT {ADU}

AFRICAN DIPLOMATIC UNIT {ADU}



FROM THE DESK OF
DR PETER WILLIAMS
HEAD AFRICAN DIPLOMATIC UNIT
LONDON
PHONE: +44 782 401 3531
FAX: +44 870 134 3261
Email Address : dr.peterwilliams_adu@hotmail.com

Sir /Madam

PAYMENT OF YOUR CONTRACT / INHERITANCE SUM THROUGH
DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY PAYMENT SYSTEM:

I am the ( HOD ) African diplomatic unit in London. I have been mandated to
contact you because of many security reports we are receiving regarding your
contract/inheritance payment within the African continent.

Recently two men were arrested impersonating you with the intension of
claiming your contract / inheritance fund with story that you are death and
that they are your next of kin. The two men were brought to our office here
in london and they confessed working with their African cohorts who supply
them with informations of foreign contractors/inheritors to pull the scam.

In line with this, AOU has handed over the payment of her foreign
contractors/inheritors to this office. You are advised to contact Dr. Peter
Williams for the immediate payment of your contract / inheritance fund.

If you are still alive, you are to forward the following informations to us
for immediate communication and contact and immediate arrangement for your
cash delivery.

1. full name and address
2. phone and fax numbers for communication
3. your driving license or id card for identification
4. your company name and your position
5.Some proof of your bonafide beneficialship

All these informations is needed to enable us compare with the payment
informations we have in our file.

Payment options include:

1. bank to bank wire transfer
2. diplomatic immunity payment system {cash delivery to your residence}

All your payment documents have been given the final ascent. We are waiting
for your reply and subsequent claim. We need an immediate response to this
email to prove that you are still alive for subsequent claim of your fund.

Thanks and have a wonderful day.

Dr Peter Williams

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This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain
privileged,proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have
received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the
original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.

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