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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024096005 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • simonjameshobb2@yahoo.de

Fraud email example:

From: "simonhobbys202@terra.es" <simonhobbys202@terra.es>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:04:24 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: TRUSTED CONFIDENT PARTNERSHIP REQUIRED FROM YOU


Dear Friend,

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal
Ethics. I introduce myself as Mr. Simon Hobbys staff in the Audit
senior management Section of a well-known bank here in the United Kingdom.

One of our accounts with holding balance of £8,700,000
(Eight Million Seven hundred British Pounds) has been dormant and last
Operated in the past (3) years. From my investigations and
Confirmations, This account was an contract executed in financing a
project with the bank, and it was an over-invoice to this turn of amount
(£8,700,000) As a senior management of the bank I have diverted the
fund for an investment/contract payment.

All arrangement have been concluded by transferring the fund to a bank
account that is not known to our bank here in united kingdom , all that
is required from you is your assistance from you and your company to claim
this fund on our behalf as the sole beneficiary of the said fund.

I have confidentially discussed this issue with some of the bank
Officials and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal
with. We thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the sole
beneficiary of the domain fund which has been unclaimed by the
beneficiary,be assured that the funds released to you will have to take due
processes, as a contractor to our bank.

This transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is
Legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism
or any other Illegal act. On your Interest, let me hear from you.

Regards,

MR SIMON HOBBYS
+44-702-409-6005

EMAIL: simonjameshobb2@yahoo.de





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