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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million dollars" (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)
  • "my direct telephone number" (a "direct line" in a scam usually means an untraceable mobile phone number used by a scammer in an internet cafe, a redirection service number that forwards to a mobile or a free voicemailbox in a different country.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +447024092796 (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.
  • johnson.peter50@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3ajohnson.peter50@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "maria secretary" <secretarymaria6@mail.mn>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:58:38 -0700
Subject: Secretary Maria


*From The Desk :*
*Attorney Peter Johnson Esq.*
*London-England Uk.*
*Tel. +44-702-409-2796*
* Email:johnson.peter50@yahoo.com <Email%3Ajohnson.peter50@yahoo.com> *
**
*Dear beloved friend.*
* *
*Sorry for the impromptu and unsolicited introduction.*
* *
*I am Attorney Peter Johnson an account operator to late (Mr. Hans ) a
nationality of your country who unfortunately died on the Terrorist attack
in Liverpool London on the dated 7th July 2005. Since the death of (Mr.Hans
) I as his account operator have made several enquiries to locate his
relations to come up for the inheritance claim, without any success. I came
across your name and contact on the course of my personal searching for my
late client relations/next of kin so I decided to contact you for this
project. As you was bearing the same last name with my late client.*
* *
*I am contacting you to assist in securing the wealth left behind in a fixed
deposit account by my late client before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the bank where my late client operates an account The board
of Directors of the bank has issued and spread a notice that after 2 months
from now and no relation shown up for the claiming of the said funds, the
funds will be confiscated and declared unserviceable.*
* *
*Since The board of Directors of the bank have been unsuccessful in locating
my client relatives for sometime now, it's on this note that I seek your
consent to present you as the relation/next of kin to my late client that
the proceed of this deposit can be released into your account. The amount
deposited $12.8 Million Dollars ,also I believed With interest ($
12.080.000.00 USD) I will agree with you on 60% for you while 40% for me. I
guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Upon your
response, furnish me with:
Email:johnson.peter50@yahoo.com <Email%3Ajohnson.peter50@yahoo.com>
*
*Your full name and address*
*Your telephone and fax numbers*
*Your occupation and age*
* *
*As soon as I receive all these information from you I will present it to
the bank Directors that I have locate the relation to my late client since
they asked that I should provide the next of kin for them to release the
inheritance fund. Let me on my direct telephone number +44-702-409-2796
once you acknowledge my email for more information.
I would like you therefore,to contact him on the below info so that he can
mail it to you.
*
* *
*Best Regards,*
*Secretary Maria*

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