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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "certified bank draft" (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 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.
  • +2347087327260
• 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.
  • fsfh1919@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Harrison John <harrison461@msn.com>
Reply-To: <fsfh1919@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:28:51 +0000
Subject: COMPENSATION FOR YOU




Dear Friend,

How are you and your family? obviously you may get upset when reading this mail but after you peruse the content very well, you shall smile at the end. Please take it for it is just nature and do not blame yourself because you did not finish this deal with me.We hope all is well with you all there? We also hope that this mail meets you in a perfect and suitable condition. On behalf of myself and my colleagues here regarding to the unfinished transaction with you. We are using this opportunity to thank you very dearly for your great effort to our unfinished transaction due to one reason or the other best known to you. But we want to inform you that we have successfully transferred the fund out of my country to someone else account who was capable of assisting me in repatriating the fund out here to his country. Due to your kind efforts, sincerity, courage and trustworthy you showed at the cost of the transaction then, we therefore like to compensate you and your family by showing our gratitude to you with the sum of $985,000.00. (Nine Hundred and Eighty Five Thousand)USD.On the authorization, we have authorized the finance house where myself and my colleagues deposited some of our money to issue you a certified international bank draft cashable at any location of your country banks. My dear friend,we will like you to contact the finance house for the collection of this international certified bank draft which is cashable at any bank in your country. The name and contact address of the finance house in brief is as follows.

FIRST SECURITIES AND FINANCE PLCEmail: fsfh1919@gmail.com
Telephone; +234-7087327260MR. EMPEROR JAMES (CHIEF OPERATION OFFICER)

At the moment, myself and some of my colleagues member are very busy here because of the investment projects which myself, colleagues member and our new re-assisted partner are having at hand like as I told you then that we are going to invest together if we get to the root of the transaction but is unfortunate you lop. Finally, remember that we have fax/forwarded instruction to the finance house on your behalf to send the bank draft to you as soon as you contact them without delay. Please I will like you to accept this token with good faith as this is from the bottom of our Godly heart.

Thanks and God bless you and your family. Hope to hear from you sooner you contacted them.

Yours faithfully,Harrison John.

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