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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:

• 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.
  • +447035993503 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: United Nations Trust Funds <info@web.net>
Reply-To: claims_undept112@live.com
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:06:11 +0800
Subject: Your cash grant pin number is (UNO-154/4456/011)


United Nations Trust Fund
Switzerland Department of Humanitarian Affairs
Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland

Congratulations Beneficiary,

your email has been selected by the United Nations(UN) for a cash grant award
of Six Hundred And Fifty Thousand Five hundred GREAT BRITISH POUNDS,
(650,500.00GBP)for this year 2009 award.Your email address was selected during
our random email balloting for the cash grant and if you receive this
notification,it means that you are a lucky beneficiary of our cash grant
award.The united nations authorities has decided to give this award
to 15 beneficiaries from all over the world to help facilitate and improve the
standard of living to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental
Shelf for
developing States, in particular the least developed countries and
small island
developing States,and compliance with article 76 of the United Nations
Convention on the Law of the Sea.This grant is been
aided by the United Nations development programme and the united nations trust
funds for human security.Your cash grant pin number is (UNO-154/4456/011)

Contact Our corresponding office (United Nations Trust Funds ) in
Liverpool,United Kingdom and they will give details on how your funds would be
remitted to you.Do contact our payment office immediately with the
informationsbelow.Your grant numbers fall within your Location file, you are
requested to
contact the event manager/Claims Department, send your winning identification
numbers and fill the verification form below,to enable him verify your claims.

1.FULL NAMES OF DONATION BENEFICIARY:..................
2.RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:........................
3.DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:.........................
4.WINNING EMAIL:...........................
5.PHONE/FAX NUMBERS:............................
6.NAME AND ADDRESS OF NEXT OF KIN:..............
7.SEX:....................
8.OCCUPATION:...................
9.MARITAL STATUS:..................
10.COUNTRY:..................
11NATIONALITY:..........

Do contact our payment office immediately with the informations below.

******************************************************************************
Payment Officer:Dr.Nathan Giroux
Tell: +4470359 93503
Email: claims_undept112@live.com

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Regards,
Mrs Ruth Williams
UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL

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