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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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• 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.
  • pwilliams07@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: "paulwilliams207@terra.es" <paulwilliams207@terra.es>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:20:26 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Thanks for your mail


From: Paul Williams
ABSA Bank South Africa

Dear Sir,
I apologize for any inconvenience this letter might cause you, considering the fact that you do not know me in person. I am Paul Williams, deputy general manager, (foreign operations) with ABSA Bank South Africa.
A client of ours, who bears the has last name with you, from your country and until his death was residing and doing business here in South Africa, he was also the CEO of an oil servicing company, he was shot dead in Lebanon in July 2006 during the fight between the Israeli army and the Hezbollah army, while he was on a business trip to Lebanon, before his death he has a company current account in our Bank and he left some reasonable amount of money in the account. The bank has made frantic efforts to locate any of his relatives to claim the Money, without any success.
Indecently I found you having the same name with him, I decided to find out if you are related to him, if yes kindly forward to me your phone and fax numbers to enable me send the full details to you. If no, I can present you to the Bank as his next of kin and get all the documents required to pay the money in your account since you have the same name with him. This is going to be for our mutual benefit. All the expenses will be personally taken care of.
Get back to me via this email pwilliams07@myway.com for the full details.
Yours faithfully,
Paul Williams







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