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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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • french155@hotmail.com
  • frentec@talk21.com
  • frequent_flyer@hotmail.com
  • frewzy82@hotmail.com
  • fribby2001@hotmail.com
  • allansmith_1980@yahoo.com
  • e-mail-allansmith_1980@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Apache <apache@lnx1.otenet.gr> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:58:29 +0300
Subject:

o.com,french@precisionpr.com,french155@hotmail.com,frenchfry11@earthlink.net,frentec@talk21.com,frequent_flyer@hotmail.com,fresh_bpnes@msn.com,frewzy82@hotmail.com,fri@prod-ph.se,fribby2001@hotmail.com
Subject: From the Desk of: Mr Allan Smith
From: allan smith <allansmith_1980@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: allansmith_1980@yahoo.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

>From the Desk of: Mr Allan Smith
{General Manager& Group Head of Income}
Banking with CHARTERED BANK PLC
E-mail-allansmith_1980@yahoo.com
Good Day to you,
With close inquiries made about you ,I believe you can handle this
matter.I humbly seek your assistance in a matter that needs outmost
trust
and confidence. I am Mr Allan Smith, (MBA,ACIS)and I am the bank
manager of CHARTERED BANK PLC in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
There is an account in my bank that has not been updated in the last
nine years and it has the sum of $13 m usd.This money has no
beneficiary and severe investigations show that the account belongs to
a foreign company belonging to Mr.Morris Thompson who died a couple of
years ago.
Right now, I am willing to give you 30% of the total sum as
your own share if the money is transferred into your account.
The nature of your business is not relevant for the success of this
transaction.
I have taken all necessary precautions to make sure that
the transaction is 100% risk free and it is believed that this
transaction will be completed within seven working days.I require you
to send me your private email address, phone and fax number for an easy
and well secured communication.
Please you must keep this transaction secret at all times until you
have received the fund in your account.You may also go through our
banking online site through ( www.CHARTEREDBANK.COM ) to check out my
profile there and everything about my bank.When you log on the
website,you click on about us and after that,you scroll down to your
left and have a click on management team and i am very sure that you
will get to the page and have a look on our management team and me in
personal.
Please do send to me your informations as stated below:
Full Name....................................
Contact Address..........................
Age......................................
Date of Birth..............................
Occupation...............................
Phone number.........................
Mobile phone..........................
Fax......................................
Best regards,
Mr Allan Smith

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