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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:
  • "hundred thousand us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • ",500,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: Honourable Teddy Macpherson <catholic.charities@live.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:04:38 +0700 (ICT)
Subject: GRANT NOTIFICATION





FROM THE CASH GRANT PROGRAMME DEPARTMENT
CATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION
CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE, ROME.


GRANT NOTIFICATION
Beneficiary Of 2008 Annual Cash Grant Award,
We are delighted to bring to your notification, that you are lucky to have been selected among the five beneficiaries of One Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars ($1,500,000.00). This grant is to be awarded to the beneficiaries each, by the Catholic Charities Foundation of the Catholic Archdiocese in Rome. For further inquiry in the claim of your grant, simply contact the Cash Grant Programme Co-ordination Secretary:
Honourable Teddy Macpherson
Secretary and Treasurer (Cash Grant Programme Co-ordinator)
Email: catholic.charities@live.com

CATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION VERIFICATION/FUNDS RELEASE FORM
Full Names:
Contact Address:
Nationality:
Occupation:
Sex:
Age:
Land Telephone No. (If Any):
Mobile Telephone No.:
Email Address:
Marital Status:
Employer (If Any):


Best regards,
John C.Gerspach,
(Assistant Secretary).

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Confidential: This email and any file transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the original recipient or person responsible for delivering the email to the intended recipient, be informed that you have received this email in error, and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited.
If you received this email in error, please immediately notify csdesk@catholiccharities.net, pandeyr@icfre.org

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