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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 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.
  • +447011127548 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Robert Peters <robert_peters110@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: r_peters01@mmail.com
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:03:17 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: You are listed in Engr. Henry Singh's Inheritance list.


GREAT ROBERT LAW FIRM UK,
25 OLD GLOUCESTER STREET.
LONDON WC1N 3XX.
TEL: +44-701-112-7548.
Fax: +44-703-040-2456.
Email: r_peters01@mmail.com

Attn: Sir/Madam,

We act as solicitors and our services have been retained by Engr. Henry Singh now late here in after referred to as our client. On behalf of my late client, I write to notify you that my late client made you a beneficiary to the bequest sum of Five Million Two Hundred Thousand British Pounds in the codicil to his will and last testament. He died on 8th day February 2005 after a brief illness at the age of 85.

Until his death he was consultant to several oil and gas industries. He had a sojourn in the United States and so many other countries before he came to Cairn Energy PLC an oil and gas exploration and Production Company based in the United Kingdom. He was a knight in the Church and belonged to several non-governmental and scientific organizations. He was also great philanthropist and a Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary Club International. This bequest is to support your activities, humanitarian services and help to the less-privileged.

In accordance with our inheritance laws you are required to apply for claims through this law firm to Finance House United Kingdom, where this fund was deposited. We are perfecting arrangements to complete the transfer of this inheritance to you. You are required to forward the following detail s of yours; full names, address, occupation, age, phone and fax numbers for verification and re-confirmation.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter immediately. Congratulations! Please get in touch with me On My Private Email Address: r_peters01@mmail.com or call +44-701-112-7548.Immediately you get this information.

Yours Faithfully,
Robert Peters Esq.
Tell: +44-701-112-7548.
Fax: +44-703-040-2456.


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