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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "amsterdam holland" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +447040109983 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Joseph Alford <josephalford200@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:31:38 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Hello VICTIM-FULLNAME


FROM: BARR: JOSEPH ALFORD
TEL: 44-70-40109983
FAX: 44-871-9941059
Address: 6 Park Crescent, Near Manchester Airport,
Greater Manchester,M14 5RE,England.

Hello VICTIM-FULLNAME,

Thanks for the email.I want you to know that this is not a scam and it will never be.

My dear partner what I need from you in this project is total commitment; trust, honesty, faithfulness and dedication so as to make this transaction a huge success which will definitely, benefit you and the less privilege.

I want to use this medium to assure you that the Project is very legal and 100% risk free as all modalities has been perfected to ensure the successful execution of the Project.

All documents relating to the origin of the funds were submitted in the Diplomatic Finance and Security Firm when the funds was being deposited by the late husband Sir Francis Owen so as to authenticate the fact that the funds has no links with drugs, terrorism and money laundering.

So, you have absolutely nothing to worry about.

Your duty in this transaction is to receive the Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars from the Finance Company and we will invest 80% of the total sum in a profitable business in your country base on your advice for the upkeep of widows, orphans, destitute, the down-trodden, physically challenged children, barren-women and persons who prove to be genuinely handicapped financially. And while 20% will be for you.

Meanwhile, the funds is presently in Amsterdam Holland, and your duty in this transaction is to go to Amsterdam Holland to claim the funds from the Finance and Security Firm where it is being lodged with the Consignment Deposit Information that would enable you claim the funds.

REQUIREMENTS.

1) The first two pages of photocopy of your international passport or Driver's license

2) Your Full Name and Address

3) Your Private Phone and Fax Number where you can be reach always.

{1} Upon the receipt of the requested information, I will prepare a LETTER OF AUTHORIZATION, and a LETTER OF AFFIDAVIT OF OWNERSHIP from HER MAJESTY'S CROWN COURT {UK} in your name as the legal recipient of the said fund on behalf of my client. Which I will send to the Diplomatic Security and Finance Services in Amsterdam Holland, The documents will enhance the release of the funds to you.

{2} I will also obtain all necessary documents to establish you as the legal recipient of the fund.

{3} Once we cross this hurdle, we will submit all these documents that will be obtain in your name to the Diplomatic Security and Finance Firm and forward you all the information which you would present to the Diplomatic Security officials in Amsterdam Holland for the release of the money to you as the legal recipient on behalf of my client.

{4} You will finally go for the claims in Amsterdam Holland, and while in Amsterdam you will open an account in your name with the assistance of the officials of the Security Firm where you would deposit the money after it has been claimed from the Security firm from where you can now transfer it to any account of your choice in the world for the agreed purposes.Furthermore, you will not go to Amsterdam Holland alone.Meanwhile I will be sending one of my colleagues over to Amsterdam Holland who will help you to monitor events.

Please your urgent response is highly needed, as we don't have much time left in the transaction.

Finally, if all these explanations are acceptable to you kindly call me on my telephone number or send an email urgently.

Thanks and God bless you.

I await your earliest response.

Yours sincerely,

Barr. Joseph Alford


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