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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.
• 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.
  • +2348059575117 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • abermanufacturing@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DENNIS PHILIP" <mrdphilip10@gmail.com>
Reply-To: abermanufacturing@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:45:18 +0100
Subject: YOUR DRAFT


Dear Colleague,


On a very happy note and bearing in mind the staunch commitment that you had
put into the quest to see that the fund was transferred to you for claim as
we had arranged but to no avail, I write to inform you that at last, the
fund transfer had been a SUCCESS.


Since all our effort in conjunction with yours were met with various
failures and disappointments after the other, there was an influential party
from Britain that was approached on our behalf by a Finance & Management
Supports Initiatives(a consulting firm); and with her (influential party)
imputes, the Fund was paid out and I have collected my own share.

Presently, I am in Ecuador where, in partnership with a core investor in the
Mining Sector of their economy, we are investing in the industry. But, I am
not oblivious of the fact that you did your best in that context, although,
it seem that element of doubt crept in. You were not to blame, as there were
many circumstances that would reflect such scepticism to any reasonable
being.

For your sincere but unfruitful sacrifices, I pressurized the influential
woman to concede some amount as COMPENSATION to you, for the resource that
you imp lunged even the time and inconveniences.

The sum of ($1.2 million united state) was what she agreed to as your
compensation value, and the sum was made in bank draft but, because of my
appointment in Ecuador and too, I could not get through to you since your
number at any time indicated "not in use", I then
handed it over to the Secretary of the Finance & Management Supports
Initiatives, the consulting firm. His name is MR Jullian Moses and his
email: (abermanufacturing@yahoo.co.uk) phone +234 80 595 75 117.and I
gave him the CODE 555, which you have to mention for identification.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr. Dennis Philip

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