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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • archie.hunter@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Archie Hunter"<leeoilo453@excite.com>
Reply-To: arch.hunter@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:08:01 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Eager To Hear From You












Hello Friend,

I am contacting you individually to seek for your assistant, to place you in a position and instruct the bank to release 30,000,000 pounds (£30 Million) deposited by John Hughes,a deceased customer, to you as a foreign investor which is the purpose of the fund.

I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences might be, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I have learnt from one of my clients. Do not betray my confidence.

Upon the receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you and no more. That is, we share the proceeds 65% for me and 35% for you.

We can fine-tune this based on our interactions and with my position/affiliate in the bank; we can get things done in a smooth way. There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking. I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you refusing to work with me and alerting the bank.

So this is why I need your full cooporation to process the release and transfer of the funds.

Call me in confirmation of this mail to discuss more necessary details of this transaction

I await your urgent response and call.

Mr. Archie HunterAuditor General,Royal Bank of Scotland,London,United Kingdom.Email: archie.hunter@yahoo.co.uk



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