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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.
• 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.
  • +447024084536 (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.
  • wpjames02122@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • wpjames02222@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "wxybox@terra.es" <wxybox@terra.es>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:45:16 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE



FROM: DR.WALLACE PETER JAMES
DIRECTOR:OFFICE OF THE INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE=20
DEPARTMENT UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION, LONDON-UK.
Tele:+447024084536 +44702 402 1596
Fax:+448709742752
Email:wpjames02122@yahoo.co.uk
=20
Attn Beneficiary,


Following the signal we received from our Investigation Unit in Europe,Amer=
ica,Asia,Africa=20

Ausralia and New Zealand and the order which we received Concerning your pa=
yment,be informed now that your payment will now be effected from our payin=
g bank.
=20
During the auditing and vetting of your files it was discovered from the re=
cords of outstanding transfer's due for payment which have been delayed by =
many officials and some of your agents from the source origin of your fund.=
Following the outcome of=20

the board of director's meeting days back, be informed that your name is am=
ong the list to receive their payment/transfer which has been delayed.

=20

I wish to officially notify you that your contract payment is being process=
ed and the part payment of Nine Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United Stat=
es Dollars ($9.7 Million USD) will be released to you as soon as you respon=
d to this letter.
=20
Kindly re-confirm to me if this is inline with what you have in your record=
and also re-confirm the information below to enable this office proceed an=
d finalize your fund remittance without further delays and also stop furthe=
r communication with all those=20

that are claiming to help you as they are trying to divert your money to CR=
ANE INC CANADA account is it your company?. Kindly forward the below inform=
ation=E2=80=99s to this=20

office to enable us communicate and effect payment to you.
=20
1) Your full name.
2) Phone, fax and mobile #.
3) Company name, position and address.
4) Profession, age and marital status.

=20

As soon as the above information=E2=80=99s are received, your payment will =
be made available to you via an International Telegraphic Transfer, which w=
ill be confirmed in your nominated bank account.Reach me through the below =
email address: wpjames02222@yahoo.co.uk
=20
Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Wallace P. James
Director Foreign Remittance
United Nations Organization
London,United Kingdom.





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