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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.
  • john_inquiries@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "john scot" <johns_cot1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: john_inquiries@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:24:59 -1100
Subject: MEMO BANK OF SCOTLAND

 From:Dr john scot

   MEMO BANK OF SCOTLAND.

I would want you to assist in a business venture
involving £35.700,000.00 Thirty Five million seven
hundred thousand Pounds from employers(BANK OF
SCOTLAND,LONDON) I am seeking for a reliable person who
will be capable to provide either an existing bank
account or set up a new or empty Bank account
immediately to receive this fund.

I am Dr  john scot,Chief Executive of Corporate.
(BANK OF SCOTLAND,LONDON).An accountant and bank
manager, During the course of our auditing I discovered
a floating fund in adomiciliary account opened in the
bank in 1997 and since 2000 nobody has operated on this
account, After going through some old files,i
discovered that the owner of the account who is a
foreigner died without any traceable next of kin hence
the dormant nature of the account and if I do not remit
this money out urgently it will be re-channeled into
the bank's reserve.
 
You will be given 15% of the total amount, 80% will be
for me,while 5% will be for expenses both parties might
have incurred during the process of this transaction. I
look forward to your earliest reply.
You should send a reply to my private mail box
john_inquiries@yahoo.com.hk
 
Best Regard,

Dr john scot

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