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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 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.
  • contactvice1@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "GREGORY BENSON" <bens_3@msn.com>
Reply-To: greg_benson777@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:15:17 +0000
Subject: transaction

Dear sir
 We want to invite you to earn about $3.7 Million on a single discreet
transaction with members of the Audit Committee of one of European Union leading banks.
The hunt for President of Chile, Augusto Pinochet unearthed a
sophisticated array of bank accounts and offshore hiding places. Secret payments by BAE to what are said to be front companies and middlemen for Gen Pinochet. It brought to the banking
industry the enforcement of Section 237 of the Companies Act which provides for the
establishment of an Audit Committee.
In our routine duty as Members of the Audit Committee of Coutts Bank, we
discovered over $51 Mn floating in the suspense account of Coutts Bank here in the
UK.Further inquiry revealed that in the years past, Cayman Island Government Officials
transferred a total sum of $478 Mn from Cayman Island to Coutts Bank as payment for various
contract awarded to foreign contractors .

We have dialogued, resolved and returned $42.2 Million to Cayman while
$14.8 Million were provided for our committee's gratification.

We are offering you the opportunity to be our Front.
send responds to E-mail; contactvice1@yahoo.com
Sincerely,
Greg Benson

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