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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.
  • jamesdaniel36@netscape.net
  • jamesdaniel36@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: James <jamesdaniel36@mac.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:54:43 GMT
Subject: consider this


I am Dr. James Daniel, a director in the corporate
finance / Private Banking department in one of the
leading foreign banks here in Milan , Italy .I have
a business proposition for you.
>From 1996 - 1999 Mr. Morris Thompson made a numbered time fixed
Deposit at our bank here .Upon maturity in ( 2005 ), I sent out a routine
notification to his forwarding address in Fairbanks,
Alaska but got no reply. After further investigation ,
we discovered that he died in January 31 , 2000. You can find
more of this stories on
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/.
For now this story is only known to me and my
regional manager , who has my support in contacting
you.After the normal 24 months period of grace allowed for any
next of kin , nobody came forward for the claims. After further
investigation , it was discovered that he died along with all
members of his family leaving no next of kin.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and my
regional manager now decided to make business with you
and release the money to you as the next of kin /
for safe keeping.Since nobody is coming for these funds and
we don't want this money to go back into Government
treasury as unclaimed bill.

You will be rewarded adequately if you assist us in claiming this fund. As
soon as you receive this mail you should contact me
through my e-mail address ( jamesdaniel36@netscape.net
and jamesdaniel36@yahoo.it) for further details.

Best Regards,
Dr. James Daniel

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