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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:

• 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.
  • 3dmartinshills47@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: Martins Hills <martinshills69@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:55:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: private message


Dear partner,=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=20
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I got your impressive Email contact from the official email directory for t=
rusted correspondence to workout a life project when I will retire from off=
ice after serving for more than 18 years in the bank as a top officer.
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I am writing to you with Trust and confident to solicit your partnership an=
d to act as a beneficiary to an unclaimed bank account belonging to one of =
our late client who had pass away with his entire family in the sep. 11 - 2=
001 American terrorist attach.His bank account content about four million e=
ight hundred thousand Euros and since then no one had came to claim his fun=
d with our bank.
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My wife and two daughters will come to your country as soon as the fund is =
transferred to the company's bank account.
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=A0Yours sincerely,=A0=A0=20
=A0
Dr. Martins Hills
Director Remittance dept.
A.D.B : Email=3Dmartinshills47@yahoo.com=20
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