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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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• 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.
  • +447031909152 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Martin Taylor" <martintaylor247@msn.com>
Reply-To: martinstaylor247@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:15:11 +0000
Subject: Greetings

Greetings. I am Mr Martin Taylor, a United Kingdom Government auditor and I
work in the International operation department in a Bank here in UK. My
purpose of contacting you is that I am looking for a Reliable patner in your
country to place as the next of kin to a dormant account that have not been
operated for years in my bank with a total sum of $ 39,000,000.USD and on
further discreet investigation I also discovered that the account holder has
long since passed away (dead) leaving no beneficiary to the account.I
contacted you due to you are a foreigner and i will provide to you the
necessary claim documents the bank will require from you in other to claim
this fund.



You should send to me the undermentioned information immediately so as to
enable me to start the paper work immediately without further delay.I will
also like you to take a close look in my family website www.martins.com




The informations will be as follows.......
Name:
Business/Occupation:
Business/Office Address:
Residential Address:
Phone and Fax NO




Keep this business within your self for security and safe reasons.You can
call me after reading my mail to you so that we can discuss more
issues.number +447031909152.Thanks as I 'm in anticipation of your
favourable response.




Have a pleasant day.




Sincerely

Mr.Martin Taylor
+447031909152


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