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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.
  • +447045702746 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Clark Seems" <clark_seems@klikni.cz>
Reply-To: clark.seems7525@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 09:32:38 +0100
Subject: VERY URGENT


Attn:

I am Clark Seems; an underwriter with a financial institution situated
in London .

I came across your contact through the web directory while I was seeking for
a foreign associate to act as my front.


I have contacted you in the hope of presenting you as my associate to assume
the new recipient of a Fixed-Income deposit valued at $8million deposited
with Barclays Bank .

I am willing to give you 25% of the total $8million as your commission for
your assistance in acting as the new recipient to the $8million.


I will need your legal details; names, address and phone numbers to enable
me re-profile your details on the $8million with the bank (BARCLAYS BANK
PLC) where the $8million is presently deposited as the new recipient.


I am confident it will be approved within 24hours and the funds will be
released to you as the new beneficiary after due documentation within 3
banking days.


Kindly note that time is of essence since the fixed-income deposit has to be
cleared before the ending of this second quarter of the financial fiscal
2008.

You earn 25% of the $8million as your commission that stands at $2million
for acting as my associate.


Looking forward to working with you.


Warm regards,
Clark Seems.
+44-704-570-2746

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