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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:
  • "the consignment" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: laurel lee <laurelleenatwest@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:48:13 -0800 (PST)
Subject: CAN I TRUELY RELY ON YOU?


From:Dr Laurel Lee
Silver Global Securities
London

Atten:Respectable One

My name is Dr Laurel Lee from London Uk, 51 years old and married with three children. I am the Director of Silver Global Security & Finance Services Limited, London. I got your information from Internet and after due consideration, I decided to contact you believing that you will not disappoint me over this transaction. I have been working with this company for over sixteen years.

Within this period, I have watched with meticulous precision how top Government officers have been using Silver Global Security & Finance Ltd to satisfy their selfish mean. They bring in these consignments/funds secretly declared the contents as jewelries, gold, diamonds, precious stones, and family treasures, and documents etc.
Their foreign partners, friends and relatives are claiming most of these consignments. A lot of them are lying here unclaimed for more than two years.

Nobody will ever come for them because in most cases,the Certificate of Deposit is never available to anybody except the depositors or me since most of them are dead. I have through the instrumentality of Silver Global security & Finance re-deposited some unclaimed overstayed consignment and get ready to move them through diplomatic means to a sister firm where it can be claimed easily by you. Since the inception of the year 2003 our company's management has changed the procedure of claiming of consignments, as soon as you are able to produce the secret information as contained in the secret file of any consignment, it will be released to you upon demand. I have finalized every arrangement to move consignment Ref-no: SGSF/0016/2004/d4 Batch-no: 300047-0010-kht containing $9.5 Million.
website:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2963086.stm

Upon your response we will arrange on how the diplomat will convey the consignment directly to you, everything concern this deal is risk free; I have taken necessary preventive measures. (The mode sharing will be 70%-30%) all the documents that covers the total funds will secured and forwarded to the finance firm on your favour.

Best regards
Dr Laurel Lee
Director,SGFC,London





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