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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "economic and financial crime commission" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
• 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.
  • mrjim0001@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION UNIT <bankimoon@un.org>
Reply-To: customerservice@sns-online.info
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 02:57:08 -0700
Subject: SCAMMED VICTIM US$520,000.00 BENEFICIARY.REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654


SCAMMED VICTIM/ US$ 250,000.00 BENEFICIARY.REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654

SNS BANK COMPENSATION UNIT, IN AFFILIATION WITH THE UNITED
NATIONS. Send a copy of your response to official email:
customerservice@sns-online.info [1]
ATTN:Sir/Madam, How are you today?, Hope all is well with you
and your family?,You may not understand why this mail came to you.
We have been having a meeting for the past 7 months which ended 2
days ago with the then secretary to the United Nations.
This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part
of the world, the United Nations have agreed to compensate them with
the sum of US$ 520,000.00(Five Hundred and Twenty Thousand United
States Dollars),this includes every foriegn contractors that may have
not received their contract sum and people that have had an unfinished
transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government
problems etc.
Your name and email was in the list submitted by our
Monitoring Team
of Economic and Financial Crime Commission observers and this is why
we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been
signed. Your name and email was in the list submitted by our
Monitoring Team of Economic and Financial Crime Commission observers
and this is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and
have been signed.
You are advised to contact Mr. Eze Chris of SNS BANK NIGERIA as he
is our representative in Nigeria, contact him immediately for your
International Bank Draft of USD$ 520,000.00
Goodluck and kind regards,
Mr. Ban Ki Moon Secretary (UNITED NATIONS).
Making the world a better place [2] Regards,
Secretary-General Banki-moon.

Links:
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[1]
http://uk.mc261.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?tostomerservice@sns-online.info
[2] http://us.f395.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=mrjim0001@yahoo.com

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• What can you do when you receive 419 spam