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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:
  • ",000,000" (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)
• 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.
  • +447031967971 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <dwmfcogov@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 14:34:40 +0000
Subject:




Foreign & Commonwealth Office King Charles Street , SW1A 2AH London

8 November 2008

Attention Executive,

Business Investment Proposal.

Compliments of the day to you.Following the Global economic direct investment Scheme. I want to do business for the benefit of the both of us to boost economic ties and build on the changing business climate in your country and the enormous opportunities your country has to offer.

Let me introduce myself, As the British foreign secretary,I got your contact from the internet security directory affiliated to my office and I want to invest £40,000,000 (forty million) british pounds sterling in your reputable company or in any good sector of your country's economy. As I believe that you are a person of great impecable character and I can trust to to help me in making the right choice of investment as I need an investment my family will rely on as soon as I retire from office.

Please this is a business proposition of mutual benefit based on mutual trust.

If you are competent and capable of doing business with me, do reply me immediately.




Anticipating your quick response.


Sincerely Yours. David Wright Miliband MPBritish Foreign Secretary
Telephone : +44 - 703 - 1967971
Fax : +44 - 702 - 4058958

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