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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 about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "deadline" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "money orders " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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.
  • +447024062371 (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.
  • dennisbibbs1234@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "dennis\.bibbs" <dennis.bibbs@laposte.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:54:47 +0200
Subject: JOB OFFER








How do you do?
My name is Dennis Bibbs. I just came about your email address and
your brief profile through an email listing affiliated with the US
Chamber
of Commerce and I would be very interested in offering you a part-time
paying job in which you could earn alot.
Before I go further I thought I'd inform you of both who you would be
working for and what you would be doing.
My name is Dennis Bibbs, 45 years of age, 3 kids, a lovely girl and 2
boys, and the love of my life, my wife. I am a somewhat
multitalented man and I do quite a lot of traveling and get to meet quite a lot of people.
I just resigned my job as a research scientist for
ARINI(AgriculturalResearch Institute of Northern Ireland(www.arini.ac.uk)) but I still work as
a freelance consultant for the instistute which gives me very much timeto
do my own work which is basically being a freelance researcher who
could be
employed by research institutes to do research projects anywhere in the world.
I reside in Dublin, Ireland and even though I have lived most of my
life in other parts of the world, I am fully residing in Ireland.
Presently, I have just been granted a funding to head a research
project in the tropical regions of West Africa regarding rare and vulnerable
plant species and this would be commencing very soon,
However my funding were by my American counterparts which sent me the
bunch of payments mostly in US based money orders. Getting an accountant in
the states or opening an account would have been my best choice but I have a
deadline to meet and taking any of those choices would cost me time and a
whole lot of other requirements I am not ready to deal with as I would be
traveling a lot in the meantime.
So presently, assuming you would be able to deal with cash, Iwould
be willing to employ you on contract basis to be my payment
representative
back in the states, this way I could issue and make these money orders out
to you, you could then cash them easily, withdraw 10% of the total amount on
these money orders as your commission and then send the rest back to me
through money gram money transfe. Bear it in mind that we would be
dealing with quite a handful of cash and you could be making up to
$3000
just working with me in a short period of time.
I would be glad if you accept my proposal and I intend to commence on
starting as soon as you are ready. If you are interested, please email me
back on dennisbibbs1234@yahoo.com
so we could make concluding arrangements.
Thank You
Dennis Bibbs
TEL:+447024062371
Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland
www.arini.ac.uk
Hillsborough, Ireland BT26 6DR



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