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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.
  
• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
• 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_james101@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "London Luggage" <london_luggage234@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: frank_james101@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:44:42 -0600
Subject: EMPLOYMENT OFFER!!!

DATE:11TH APRIL,2007
LONDON LUGGAGE COMPANY.
455 Oxford Street, London, W1C 2PU
http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/directory/1208/8451.php

I am writing following impressive information I got about you through one of
my friends who run a consultancy firm under LONDON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND
INDUSTRY. He assured me of your capability and reliability to champion a
business of great magnitude.

I am Mr. Frank James, the managing director of the above mentioned
company. Base on the assurance given on your behalf, my company has
decided to appoint you as our debt collector from our overseas creditors
who owe us. The creditors always send us checks for our payment but
foreign checks take longer time to clear and sometimes some of them got
lost in transit and it becomes problem to us getting our money.

We have now agreed that any debt you collected on our behalf, 10% is
allowed for you as your share while the remaining will be remitted to us
through wire transfer on the bank account information we shall give for
that purpose or via western union money transfer to any of our offshore
payment centre.

To commence on this deal, you are to send the following in your reply:
1. Your Full Name and it will appear on the check
2. Your current telephone and fax numbers
3. Home addres;Street No.,City, State and Zip Code (no postal address
allowed)
4. Age

Note: that your duty is ONLY to collect money on our behalf from our
debtors overseas. If you are interested, please reply ASAP to (
frank_james101@yahoo.co.uk ).

Yours sincerely,
FRANK JAMES.

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