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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (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)
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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 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.
  • dbarnado@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: santo@santobarnado.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:25:05 +0100 (CET)
Subject: URGENT INVESTMENT PROPOSAL


URGENT INVESTMENT PROPOSAL

Sir

I’m making this contact with you based on the reliable information available to me concerning your reputation during my search. The information is so positive as to convince me that you would be capable to provide me with a solution to a money transfer of Seven Million Five hundred thousand United States Dollars (US$7,500,000.00).

As you may wish to know, I’m the chairman of the (CRC) Contract review committee set up to review all contracts awarded by the department of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of my country Angola. This Committee is principally mandated by the Federal Government to review all contract awarded to foreign contractors and reason why some foreign contractors has not been paid their contractual entitlement.

During the revision exercise, it might interest you to know that I was able to recover about US$270,000,000.00 (Two Hundred and Seventy Million United States Dollars) an over inflated contract amount and US$75,000,000.00 Million dollars an unpaid contract amount to some foreign contactor whose contract has been dully completed and yet the contractors has not received their contractual entitlement.

Having review and submitted report on the above finding to the federal government, an approval was granted for an immediate payment of US$75,000,000.00 dollars owed to the foreign contractors.

I'm therfore contacting you to seek your assistance in providing me with an account information where the sum of US$7.5 million dollars will be transferred to. I have concluded all necessary arrangement to use my good office to set aside the sum of US$7,500,000.00 as an unpaid foreign contract payment and transfer it to any foreign bank account that you will provide.

The above funds transfer will be made possible because of the position that i occupy, to ensure a hitch free fund transfer, i will employ a very diligent bureaucratic means to transfer the US$7,500,000 from the external oil sales of the Federal Government of my country without hitch. The transfer of this US$7.500, 000.00 will be made possible because of my strategic position in the government and my relationship with some corresponding key officials in the ministry of finance who will assist to include your name and company as one of the foreign contractors whose contractual entitlement has not been paid and subsequently transfer the funds into an account that you will provide. My relationship with the above mentioned key officers will afford me the required inter-governmental funds transfer connections to successful transfer out these funds into an account that you will provide without hitch. You/your company shall be made the beneficiary of the funds with all the relevant document proving the source of the funds.

Upon the successfully transfer of this funds into any bank account that you will provide, I shall fly down to meet with you in your country for disbursement of the funds according to the terms agreed upon.

I shall therefore be expecting your response in your willingness to work with me and provide me with the above required information alongside your full name and telephone number that will enable me commence action in transferring the funds. Upon receipt of your reply, i shall furnish you with details procedures towards the successful transfer of these funds without hitch. All replies in response of this mail shall be directed to my private email address: dbarnado@netscape.net

Thanks

Mr. De Santo Barnado
Chairman Contract Review Committee
dbarnado@netscape.net

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