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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 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.
  • +2348035254945 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Williams"<fbwm1@myway.com>
Reply-To: williamsa20077@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:50:00 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: HELLO!MAIL FROM WILLIAMS.


ATT: I am a staff of bank in Africa. I will give you the name of my bank and other important information if I receive a positive reply from you. For security reasons I cannot disclose my full identity to you now until I am sure of your cooperation. I work in the operations dept where I serve as account officer to numerous customers. One of the customers whom I worked as his account officer was a wealthy diamond merchant from Australia. Because this man was good to me when he was alive, I took it upon myself to travel to his country last month, to see if I could locate any of his close relations. On reaching there I discovered that his only surviving uncle died a few months back. I sponsored this trip on my own and nobody in the bank knew I was undertaking the journey so I did not present any official report of my findings in the bank. Now there are two things I could do with regards to the money. First, as his accounts officer, I could formally notify the bank authorities
that the man is dead and you are the only survival. In this case the money (USD$17m) would be forfeited to us,The deal is 50/50.call me on phone +234-80-35254945.So that I can give you further details. Also provide me with your direct tel no. to reach you.Yours truly, Email address: williamsa20077@yahoo.comDr.Williams.

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