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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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.
  • +447031872124 (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.
  • neiljones_esq@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: neilchambers_esq@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:04:26 +0200
Subject: RE:FROM LONDON

Dear Sir/Madam,


My name is Neil F. Jones, an executive staff of a bank in Scotland UK. I wish to make a transfer involving a huge amount to a designated bank account of your choice.

For your support (morally, financially etc.), you will have 30% share of the total amount after the transfer.

The greatest antagonist in this alienated approach is that we must handle this investments / transfer with a legal agreement that will bind us legally, it must be well signed by both of us, that will bind us memorandum us in every area of our business.

Note that during the transfer a the copy of backup letter will be forwarded from the transferring bank to your receiving bank .

Kindly contact me on

Neil F. Jones
Tel: +44-703-187-2124
Fax: +44-703 182 2249
Email: neiljones_esq@yahoo.co.uk.
Yours sincerely.

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