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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.
  • +31647146661 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • tolk2joba@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "RUSSELL DAVIES" <mercywillemshntxmid@netscape.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:53:02 +1000
Subject: HONOURABLE


Russell Advocaten
Reimersbeek 2
1082 AG Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Telephone +31 64 714 66 61
Fax +31 847 196 350

Our Ref: T.D.C.S/XL1/2006

datum: 28-02-2006



Honourable Next Of Kin

We have a WILL in your name and we have been trying to get through to you
ever since your benefactor died.

He willed a deposit €8.6million (Eight Million, Six hundred thousand Euros
only) which he has in an account in a bank here in The Netherlands.


We want you to send to us immediately the following details to enable us
transfer your late benefactor's estate to your account in your country.

1) Your full names

2) Your private phone and fax numbers

You are to send this information by fax or with this email
address:tolk2joba@yahoo.com

Thanks for your understanding as we await your call.

Respectfully,


Dhr. Russell Davies [Esq.]

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