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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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• 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.
  • frank_morris12@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Frank Morris"<sir_la_mamoud@myway.com>
Reply-To: frank_morris12@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:09:33 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Urgent Reply Needed












On 16th October 2005, our client Alexander Slesarev was

assassinated together with his wife and daughter on their way to a

Monastery at Stary Oskol. A couple of months before this incident, Alex

visited my office in London where he registered a vault holding

17,500,000 dollars being the reserve from his two banks which licenses

were revoked in Moscow by Kozlov. This vault has been under my direct

supervision as the CFO.My worry is that it might be discovered and

seized during this year-end inspection. I hereby seek your co-operation

to claim this vault for our mutual benefits. If we agree to work on

mutual trust, I will procure the relevant paper-works with your

particulars so that you will come forward and claim the money as the

beneficiary, open an account and deposit it afterwards, we share the

total amount equitably. Please understand that I need your cooperation

desperately to secure this vault. I plead that you keep this

information strictly with you.Contact me urgently for details, time is

of essence. Reply To: frank_morris12@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks.

Your Sincerely,

Frank



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