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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.
• 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.
  • johndonald009@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: John Donald <johndonald014@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 15:27:43 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR TRUST.



Dear Sir,

I am Mr. John Donald Dafler, Chief Accountant of Barclays Bank and I want to enquire from you if you can handle this transaction of $2.7M dollars belonging to our deceased customer who died along with his family in the Continental Flight 3407 that crashed near Buffalo on
Thursday night on February 14, 2009. Please read the NY times at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/nyregion/13crash.html?_r=1.

I will give you more details and what will be your percentage for your assistant as soon as I receive your confirmation of interest and please forward to me the below information: mail me via :johndonald009@gmail.com .

Your name: ............................
Your country: .........................
Your phone Number: ....................
Your Tel/fax: .........................
Your age: .............................
Your occupation: ......................

Thank for your anticipated co-operation

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. John Donald Dafler

Barclays Bank
Washington - USA

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