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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:
  • "million british pounds" (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)
  • ",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.
  • +447031851625 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • ericjeff18@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: eric jeff <ericjeff001@msn.com>
Reply-To: <ericjeff18@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:19:12 +0000
Subject: Assistance



Manchester M27 5FX ,United Kingdom .
Email;ericjeff18@yahoo.com
Tel: +44 7031851625
Attn SirDo accept my sincere apologies if my mail does notmeet your personal ethics although. I am presently inLondon working as an investment consultant with theabove bank at their London office. And I am poised towork this deal out if we can do business. Be so kindto contact me at your earliest convenient for a possible
business deal involving money transfer of about £25,000,000
(Twenty-Five Million British Pounds).In one of our periodic auditing, I discover dormantaccounts with holding balance of 25,000,000(Twenty-Five Million British Pounds) which has notbeen operated for the past three years. From myinvestigations and confirmations, the owner of thisaccount is a foreigner, and he died without a WILL.As at this moment, I am constrained to issue you moredetails about this business until your response isreceived. And I would love to furnish you with alittle bit of my biography as we progress with thebusiness. As we have not meet before.So send me your nominate account information as statesbelow where you like the money to be transfer so thatI will write and apply an application for the releaseof the fund immediately into your account.This is extremely urgently
Best regards
Eric Jeff
Chief investment Consultant.Allied Irish Bank (GB).
Tel: +44 7031851625

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