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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:
  • "clearance certificate" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "courier service" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
  • "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • drtommoses@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mother Emily Olivier Jackman" <basurto@itesm.mx>
Reply-To: emiolivier@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:32:11 +0200
Subject: Greetings!

Greetings!
I am sure this mail would be coming to you as a surprise since you do not
know me, but I know you and I have chosen to be anonymous, you may be asking
why I have decided to chose you amongst the numerous people in the whole
wide world, precisely I am rendering you this favor due to the fact that
you have once help somebody that was very dear in my life, I made a solemn
plea in my heart to give you this money so that you may in turn do the same
to others at your own time. Do not be worried for I come with good and something
very positive is about to happen in your life right now and to the lives
of others through you, if and only if you carefully read and digest the message
below. The internet has made the world global villages where you can reach
anybody you want to reach without much hurdles.

Before I move further, permit me to give you a little of my biography, I
am Mother Emily Jackman, 87 Years old woman and the wife of Late Sir Olivier
Jackman who died in a Plane crash on Monday the 7th of September 1998 GMT
14:22 UK while they were flying from New York to Geneva. Please see site
below for more information.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html

After the death of my husband I became the Head of his investment and now
that I am old and weak I have decided to spend the rest of my life with my
family and loved ones whom I never had time for, during the course of my
business life, but before the death of my husband we had a plan to use the
last days of our lives to donate half of what we have worked for to the less
privilege and charity homes and the other half for ourselves, family members
and close friends, and it is so unfortunate that my husband is not alive
today to do this with me and I am very weak and old now, hence I have decided
to do this philanthropic work on behalf of my late husband and I.
Presently, I have willed out almost half of our assets to several charity
homes and to some of the less privilege in different countries.

Despite the agreement between my late husband and I to give aid to the deprived,
we also agreed to render support to an individual which we feel is very important
in our lives and to the fact that we had a strong urge to make such gesture
a concrete reality in your life and that of those that are close to you,
you have been of immense help at one time in the life of my late husband,
the impact we got from such gesture made us to do same.

I am sorry to inform you that you will never have the chance to meet me because
I have just concluded the assignment which my husband and I have agreed upon
before his sudden death and you happened to be the beneficiary of our last
WILL, irrespective of your previous financial status.
I have presently deposited a cheque in the sum of 5.800,000.00 British Pound
with FedEx Express to be delivered to you, what you have to do now is to
contact the FedEx Courier Service as soon as possible to know when they will
deliver your package to you because of the time limits.
For your information, exception of the security fee which you will pay, I
have paid for the delivering Charge, Insurance premium and Clearance Certificate
Fee of the cheque showing that it is not a Drug Money or meant to sponsor
Terrorist attack in your Country.

You have to contact the FedEx Courier Service now for the delivery of your
parcel [containing cheque] with this information bellow;
Contact Person: Mr. Mark Robbins
Email Address: fedexukd@live.co.uk
Again, you are not to pay for the delivering Charge, the Insurance premium
and the Clearance Certificate Fee of the Cheque because I have already paid
for them. The only payment you will remits to them is the security fee, pending
when you will get to them, the amount you should remits to them would not
exceed 300.00, British Pound, the money may increase if it stays too long
in there custody,

You are to reconfirm the below information to them to avoid any mistake on
the Delivery and ask them to give you the tracking number to enable you track
your package over there and know when it will get to your address.

Postal address;
Full Names:
Direct telephone number;

Below is the security keeping code: (SCT/0433/UD) of your draft, you are
to also present it to them for verification before delivery.
Let me repeat again; try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail
to avoid any further delay.
Be also notified that I will no longer be reading my emails or surfing the
internet as I have retired completely from the outside world to my ranch,
at this moment I have nothing to do with emails and other luxuries, all further
correspondence should be forwarded to the courier company for the delivery
of your cheque to you.

Yours Affectionately,
Mother Emily Olivier Jackman
Hello,
I am Dr Tom momses the Director General Of Tom Investment Plc, i give
out genuine and government approve loan to serious minded individuals and
companies if interested contact me at drtommoses@gmail.com

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