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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.
• 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.
  • genevieve_lloyd1980@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Genevieve Lloyd" <genevieve@postmaster.ru> (may be fake)
Reply-To: genevieve_lloyd1980@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:51:16 +0000
Subject: I Need Your Help.

Dear Sir,

I am GENEVIEVE LLOYD, I represent a top company executive in Russia, his business interest includes crude oil exploration, mining, construction etc. I have a very sensitive and private brief from this top executive to ask for your partnership to re-profile funds over €90,000,000.00. I will give the details, but in summary, the fund is coming via a bank in Western Europe. This is a legitimate transaction. You will be paid 8% of this fund for your proposed "management fees", to assist him to re-profile this fund appropriately to a new investment location in the USA and United Kingdom, if I am able to reach terms with you.

This top businessman is in the final stage of buying into and taking control of one of the top flight Premiership Football Clubs in the United Kingdom through a proxy and this deal is of immerse importance to the success of the takeover bid. He has also reached an advanced stage in concluding profitable partnership with top grade companies in the USA in expansion of bio- fuel plants and Pipeline Developments in Pacific USA. This he is doing also through a dedicated proxy and funding from such operations as this.

If you are interested, please write back by email to my superficial email address: genevieve_lloyd1980@yahoo.co.uk and provide me with your confidential telephone number, and email address and I will provide further details. Please keep this close to your chest as much as possible; we can not afford any political problems with Moscow and its allies.

Please whatever your decision, write me back. I look forward to it.

Regards,
Genevieve Lloyd.
Genevieve_lloyd1980@yahoo.co.uk

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