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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.
  • +447024015119 (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.
  • mkth124@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR ROSE MARY" <rosemary061@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rosemary061@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:49:21 +0000
Subject: ATTENTION

From Mrs Rosemary Smith.
Credit Finance Banknig
Release Department Office,
79 BANARES ROAD,
PLUMSTEAD, SE18 1HX,
LONDON UK.


Hello,partner

I am Mrs Rosemary Smith, the secretary to the Director of Credit Finance
Banknig (C.F.B)London,UK. I was directed to inquire if you can handle this
transaction on behalf of my boss ( Mark Anthony) and his devoted colleagues.

The transaction is about assisting us as our foreign counterpart to enable
us present you as the beneficiary of the $20million dollars left in our
finance company by our late deceased foreign customer,Larry Baldridge Jr. of
Novato, California,He was a savvy businessman taking advantage of the
Internet boom. who died on plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which
crashed on January 31 2000.You can comfirm the crash at the link below.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list

The fund is currently laying in our costudy awaiting claim.We will give you
more details about these transactions when we receive your affirmative
response. You are advice to contact mark anthony immediately for further
procedure, Below are his contact:

Name : mark anthony
Address : 79 BANARES ROAD,
PLUMSTEAD, SE18 1HX, LONDON
Email : mkth124@yahoo.com
Phone +447024015119

You are required to forward to him the following informations as to enable
immediate communications with you.

1)Your full Name and contact address.

2)Your private telephone/fax or preferably your mobile numbers.

3)Your banking details where the fund will be transfered to ASAP.

Once again accept our apology for not waiting for your permission before
contacting you, It was all due to the urgencies in search of a foriegn
partner.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours Faithfully
Mrs Rosemary Smith.

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