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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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• 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 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.
  • revfatheragustin@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "GENERAL SIR RICHARD DANNATT." <adimdu2003@live.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:42:05 -0400
Subject: TO: BENEFICIARY




TO: BENEFICIARY,

I am General Sir Richard Dannatt a British Army Commander and we are the financial investigation unit with the office of the United Nations, CIA and FBI. We picked up the file of Mrs.Caro Mark a foreigner of your country, who was the managing director of Oil Development Company plc in Africa, She died along with her husband and there three children in an underground bomb blast.

I have been given the mandate to contact you as the next of kin by the Secretary General of the United Nations and we have concluded your payment through the holding bank here and I want you to contact Rev.Father Augustine Mbanefo right away through the below information and you are also asked to stop any further communication with whosoever including your partner because we are undergoing an investigation and if anybody is found guilty or having hands in extorting money from you we will arrest him and hand him over to the Funds Investigation Unit.

Contacts the Financial Secretary :
Rev.Father Augustine Mbanefo to enable him start the process of releasing your payment amount of $18.5m from the bank.
Do as direct to receive your payment:-
Rev.Father's Email:
revfatheragustin@yahoo.com.hk

GENERAL SIR RICHARD DANNATT.
BRITISH ARMY COMMANDER


ZU: BEGÜNSTIGTER,

Ich bin General Sir Richard Dannatt ein britischen Armee-Kommandanten und wir sind die Finanzuntersuchungsmaßeinheit mit dem Büro der Vereinten Nationen, CIA und FBI. Wir hoben die Akte der Mrs.Caro Markierung ein Ausländer Ihres Landes, das der geschäftsführende Geschäftsführer von Oil Development Company plc in Afrika war, sie starben zusammen mit ihrem Ehemann und dort drei Kindern in einer Untertagebombenexplosion auf. Mir bin die Vollmacht gegeben worden, zum mit Sie als das folgende der Stämme in Verbindung zu treten vom Generalsekretär der Vereinten Nationen und wir haben Ihre Zahlung durch die Holdingbank hier geschlossen und ich wünsche Sie mit Rev.Father Augustine Mbanefo durch die untengenannten Informationen sofort in Verbindung treten und Sie werden auch gebeten, jede weitere Kommunikation mit whosoever einschließlich Ihren Partner zu stoppen, weil wir eine Untersuchung durchmachen und wenn jedes schuldig gefunden wird, oder, Hände in erpressendem Geld von Ihnen habend, wir ihn festhalten und ihn zur Kapitals-Untersuchungs-Maßeinheit überreichen. Tritt mit dem Finanzsekretär in Verbindung: Rev.Father Augustine Mbanefo mit Ihrem vollständigen Namen, Alter, Besetzung, Kontaktadresse und Telefonnummer, zum er zu ermöglichen, den Prozess des Freigebens Ihrer Zahlungsmenge $18.5m von der Bank zu beginnen.

Tun Sie, wie direkt, um Ihre Zahlung zu empfangen:
- Rev.Father' s-eMail: revfatheragustin@ yahoo.com.hk

ALLGEMEINER SIR RICHARD DANNATT.
BRITISCHER ARMEE-KOMMANDANT

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