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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.
  • valensmith_001@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "dhunterd3@terra.es" <dhunterd3@terra.es>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:16:50 +0100 (MET)
Subject: COMPESATION FOR YOUR PAST EFORT



::::::Personal Memo:::::
---After Reading Please Contact My Secretary
Directly----

From:David Hunter.

551 Main
Bazaar, Shahdara,
New Delhi, India.
My Dearest Friend,

I could not contact you earlier before now due to my tight schedules. I am very happy to inform you about my success in getting that fund under the cooperation of a new partner from India. Presently I'm in New Delhi with the partner for the some projects with the money.

Meanwhile, I did not forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in that process despite that it failed us at that time.

Now,I want you to contact my secretary,his name is Valentine Smith and his email address is: "valensmith_001@yahoo.fr" ask Him to send you the total sum of ( $900,000.00 ) which I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter.

I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in touch with my secretary Valentine Smith and instruct him where to send the Draft to you.

Please do let me know immediately you contact him to receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at that time.

In the moment, I am very busy here because of the projects which I and the new partner are have at hand.

Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on your behalf to receive that Draft, so feel free to get in touch with Him and He will send the Draft to you without any delay as I have instructed him to make sure that He send you the Draft via EMS for security reason and urgent delivery of it to you.

Best regards,
David Hunter.

551 Main
Bazaar, Shahdara,
New Delhi, India.





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