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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 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.
  • +447624172658
• 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.
  • tp2email@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MR.DANIEL ADOO <dan_ad27@yahoo.com.au>
Reply-To: dnl_adoo@yahoo.com.au
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:46:27 +0400
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE


Hsbc Bank of London
Contact Person: John Teppen (Head of Foreign Operations Dept.,)
Tel: +44-7624-1726-58 Extension 3
Fax: +44-7624-1726-53
Email: tp2email@yahoo.com


Dear Sir,

How are you doing today sir, with out wasting time i want to open up to you the reason of coming in contact with you after i came accross your contact information in the dubai chamber of commerce, my proposal is thus,my late father Mr Adams Adoo made a fixed deposit of $32,000,000 in a london bank and he made this deposit for the purpose of purchasing mining equipments he managed to transfer this money into his offshore non residential account before he lost his life and i have the transfer and deposit slip which i have in my custody.

But the most important thing that made me to reach out to you is that this funds agreement signed by my late father and the bank did not authorise me to withdraw or have access because he instructed the bank that the beneficial company will be presented to them for the release and payment by i his only son, if dad had known that he will die he could have made me the account beneficiary but as God may have it every thing turned out like this.

Now what i want you to do for me is for you to be presented to the bank as the rightfull beneficiary to the deposit so that the money will be transfered into your companies bank account on my behalf or to any bank account that you will present and i want you to know that this is because i intend investing in your company with part of this money, i have agreed on a 35% of the total sum for your honest assistance and 65% for me since i have no other choice than to present a company as signed by my late father.

All you need to do is to provide me with an identification card and direct contact address to me so that i can send an application to the bank in london indicating you for the transfer so that this money can be transfered to your account under your care after which you will send me an invitation to meet with you for the disbursement and futher investment please this is based on trust and i have no other person to go to and my status here does not allow me to move around freely that is why i need you to come to my assistance so that i can realise what i consider my inheritance.

Please get back to me as soon as possible.

Regards,
Daniel Adoo.

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