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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:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • john_ben2006@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: john_ben2006@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:18:09 +0530 (IST)
Subject: URGENT REPLY


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: benjohn58@yahoo.in



- 24 Cannon St., London EC4M,5TA,UK,Attn:Sir/Ma ,Iam MR JOHN BEN,Funds manager,Fidelity International Investments, LONDON,The World Largest Funds management with over 1.2 Trillion GBP Capital Investment Funds.Nevertheless,as Fidelity Funds Manager,i handle all our investors Direct Capital Funds and secretly extract 3.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit(EMRCP)per annum on each of investor's Magallan Capital Funds.As an expert,i have made over 49.8million GBP from the investor's EMCRP and here by looking for some one to trust who can stand as an investor to recieve the funds as annual Investment Proceeeds from Fidelity Magallan Capital Funds.All confirmable documents to back up this claim will be made available to you prior to your acceptance. Meanwhile,I have worked out the strategeous and technicalities where the funds can be claimed in any of our 6 clearing houses without any hitch .Our sharing ratio will be 55-40 while 5% will be for expenses during the process of tran!
saction. Should incase you are interested,please email me your direct telephone number for disscussion of this deal in further details.Sincerely, MR JOHN BEN Email: john_ben2006@yahoo.com

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