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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:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • drwilliamschallas10@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Williams Challas" <drwilliamschallas10@hotmail.fr> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 09:16:46 +0000
Subject: FROM DR. WILLIAMS CHALLAS

Hello Dear,

I will really want you to bear with me after reading my mail and be of good assistance to me. Because i know you don't know me in person, of which bad people here in africa has made people not to trust the good once again, but as for me you really need to trust me. I promise you i will never let you down in helping me.

Before anything, let me tell you about myself. I am Dr. Williams Challas. I am a Banker working as the remittance director of our Bank. One late Mrs. Anna Clark from america that was working with United National here in Cote D'Ivoire deposited the sum of $1,850,000 before she died. And since she died nobody has come for the claims of the fund. So please i will want you to make claims of the fund as the new beneficiary to the fund, in order for me to transfer the fund into your account without any problem.

In addition, this transaction is 100% risk free, and nobody knows about this transaction here in our Bank, i have all the deposit documents that covers the fund with me, all we need is only to change the documents to your name as the new beneficiary, so it will empower me to transfer the fund into any of your trust account which you are going to send to me when time is due.

Finally, if you wish to speak with me personally on phone you can call me with this number that is stated herein ( 0022566120882 ) or you can respond through my personal email: drwilliamschallas10@hotmail.fr

Best Regards,
Dr. Williams Challas.

Anti-fraud resources:

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