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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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• 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 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.
  • danieljames1970@wanadoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DR.DANIEL JAMES" <danieljames24@wanadoo.es>
Reply-To: danieljames1970@wanadoo.es
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 05:39:34 +0200
Subject: RE:URGENT REPLY


Dear Friend,
I am Dr. Daniel James, a director of corporate finance / Private
Banking department in one of the leading foreign banks here in Milan ,
Italy .I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.
In 1999 Mr. Morris Thompson made a numbered time fixed Deposit valued at
US$9,500,000.00, (Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) in my branch
for seventy-two months ( six years ).
Upon maturity last year ( 2005 ), I sent out a routine notification to his
forwarding address in Fairbanks, Alaska but got no reply. After further
investigation , we discovered that he died in January 31 , 2000 along side
with his family . You can find more of this stories on
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ For now this
story is only known to me and my regional manager , who has my support in
contacting you.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and my regional manager now
decided to make business with you and release the money to you as the next
of kin / beneficiary of the funds for safe keeping and investment. Since
nobody is coming for these funds and we don't want this money to go back
into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.
We agreed that 36% of this money will be for you if you assist us in
claiming this fund, while the
balance will be for my colleague and I. Note that this transaction is
confidential and risk free. As soon as you receive this mail you should
contact me through my e-mail address ( danieljames1970@wanadoo.es or
danieljames@libero.it) for further details.
Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these
funds to you as has been finalized and this fund is not linked to scam /
money laundering and its alike.
Upon the receipt of your response to assist I will be able to put you in a
clearer picture of what next to do .Do bear in mind if this transaction does
not interest, please discard this e-mail and do not use it against me as
what I am doing will risk me of my job I have laboured for years if exposed.
I crave your indulgence to make this a top most secret .
Best Regards,
Dr .Daniel James

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