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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 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.
  • lexdoumoore@yahoo.de

Fraud email example:

From: "lexdoumoore009@terra.es" <lexdoumoore009@terra.es>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:02:53 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: My Pleasure


FROM: MR ALEX MOORE
CITI BANK
LONDON

Dear Friend,
This message might meet you in utmost surprise

however,it's just my
urgent
need for a foreign partner that made me contact you for

this
transaction.
I am a banker by profession from london and currently

holding the post of Foreign Remmittance Manager in our
bank
orkshire office.
I have the opportunity of transfering the left over

funds totalling $5.6 million
of
one of my bank deceased client into any account ,the

deceased, LATE MR GEORGE BRUMLEY who died with his

entire family in the charter plane which
crashed on mount kenyan in the kenyan city of sumburu

on 21st
july,2003

You can confirm the genuiness of the deceased death by

clicking on this
web site
:http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/

index.html
Hence,i am inviting you for a business deal where this

money can be
shared
between us in the ratio 70/30 if you agree to my

business proposal of transfering the money into your

personal account or company account,there is no problem

about this transaction, its 100% risk free.
Eagerly waiting for your response.
MR ALEX MOORE
lexdoumoore@yahoo.de
Tel:+44 702406021





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