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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.
  • +447040129156 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • trans_atlantic111@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Trans Atlantic Trading" <transatlantic114@msn.com>
Reply-To: jsmth@london.net
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:10:32 +0000
Subject: Business Partnership

Dear Business Associates and trusted allies:

It may appear strange for me to write, but during our business
conversations and with a number of you and your successful
transactions, I had wanted to forward this situation for your console
and eventually partnership in the hopes of keeping up our affiliation
as we get ready to enter the year 2006.

You see I have been entrusted with a business partnership in West
Africa that a trusted partner has given me. Because of his own
recent legal issues with the recent failure of Tyco Inc, he can no
longer work in the former role of CFO for the about to be mentioned
firm in Grand Cayman.

I have access to oil futures in the form of $13,500,000 U.S. dollars.
Unfortunately I will need assistance in moving these monies to a
non-partisan third party as a temporary hold before I can gain access
to the above amount (less commissions).

To keep this to the point I will end this here and ask that all
interested parties please contact me. The firm(s) that provides
successful assistance will receive 12% (twelve percent) of the above amount.

Thank you all and God bless.

John Smith
Project Manager
Lawyers Direct (UK) Ltd
53 Davies Street
London W1K 5JH
Tel: +44(704) 012 9156
Email: trans_atlantic111@yahoo.co.uk
"Let Lawyers Direct be your Beacon of Financial help"

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