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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.
  • +22507273663 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • info_globprot_securities@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Martins philip <martins_philip7732911@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:36:31 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU URGENTLY




Dear Bamey Kortler,

I am very happy to read your mail, please I am very sorry for the late reply is to my travell out of the city. Please now I will like us to do some thing so the consignment will be withdrawn from the security company. I want to suggest if you can arrange your good self to visit me for 2 or three days only so both of us will go to the security company to and withdraw the consignment and we pay in the fund to one international bank and you instruct then bank to transfer the fund to your nominated bank account in your country.

I have given you the contact of the security company which I have been asking you to contact them to ask for their conditions to withdraw the consignment. I am including the contact again for you to reach them.

Mr. Patrick Johnson
The Director of Operations
Global Protection Securities Inc.
Tel: 00225 0727 3663
Fax 00225 2156 5890
E-mail: info_globprot_securities@yahoo.fr

Please I want us to conclude this transaction latest by next month.

Thanks and God bless you.

Yours sincerely,
MARTINS PHILIP





Thank you for your superlative reply.

Especially for you only, I provide now my employment. My work is as a cook. It is a not easy position and I do not get paid much, so perhaps you can grasp why I am sometimes unsettled as your lovely scheme sounds so really fine.

Please courier me all the documentation relating to your fine offer. Can you send them to me at my latest address:

Mr Bamey Kortler
Lindenring 1
Gunzenhausen
37313
Germany

For faster discussions, you might like to call me at +49 171-1324784. It is the new phone at my residence. The fax at my work is +49 1378286534. Additionally I include for good trust my personal identity for you.

Is this summary ok? I really want to know you more. Please reply to me: what type of cuisine do you really like? Moreover, what sort of work qualifications do you have?

Sometime ago my guru told me: Glory lies still, abuse is running.

Please do reply. I look forward to read something hospitable from you.

Be well,

Hr. Bamey Kortler

PS. You should know that the phone number supplied does not work. Please give me a workable number.

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