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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:

• 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.
  • internationalcombank@internationalcombank.cjb.net

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr Williams Pelle" <dr_pelle33@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:56:08 +0000
Subject: Urgent notification.

Dear sir,

With reference to your mail,it is very sad to tell you that based on
deliberations yesterday with the minister of finanace,your funds will no
longer be transfered from Africa.A circular was passed yesterday that the
funds that has been approved to you will be handled by the banks
international remmited vendor office in U.K

This means that your funds will no longer be handled from Africa but U.K

I will get the circular sent to you on monday.Meanwhile,your informations
has been sent to U.K office by International commercial bank Ghana to get in
touch with you early next week.You can verify by writing to
(internationalcombank@internationalcombank.cjb.net) for more informations.

I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible.

Regards,

Dr.W.Pelle.

N.B

Please reconfirm your telephone numbers and fax in your next mail with your
full bank informations.

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