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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:

• 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.
  • +447024075504 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448712530486 (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.
  • andrewclayton_foundation@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: Miss Catrin Walters <catrinwalters_powmfoundation@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:18:24 +0100 (BST)
Subject: PRINCESS OF WALES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION GRANT


ATTN: Grant Recipient,
This is to bring to your information that your email has been randomly selected and approved as a charity grant beneficiary of PRINCESS OF WALES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (POWMF). You are awarded a grant sum of £2,555,000.00 (Two Million Five Hundred And Fifty Five Thousand Great Britain Pounds) and for further instructions on how you are to put claim to your grant, you are to FORWARD a copy of this notification to our International Grants Officer’s email address below as well as give him a call via phone number below:
MR. ANDREW CLAYTON,
INTERNATIONAL GRANTS OFFICER,
GRANT AWARD DEPARTMENT,
PRINCESS OF WALES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION,
FOUNDATION BUILDING,
59 HOUGHTON STREET,
LONDON, WC2A 2AE,
UNITED KINGDOM.
Tel: +44 7024075504
Fax: +44 8712530486
Email:andrewclayton_foundation@yahoo.co.uk


Congratulation once again from the entire staff of PRINCESS OF WALES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION and it is our hope that you will appreciate our gesture and judiciously spend your grant.
Sincerely,
Miss Catrin Walters,
PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER,
GRANT AWARD DEPARTMENT,
PRINCESS OF WALES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
FOUNDATION BUILDING,
59 HOUGHTON STREET,
LONDON, WC2A 2AE,
UNITED KINGDOM.
postmaster@powmf.4t.com
UNSUBSCRIBE:
PRINCESS OF WALES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH BULK EMAIL SENDING/SPAMMING, IF YOU FEEL YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED AS A GRANT BENEFICIARY IN ERROR, KINDLY VISIT THE FOLLOWING LINK TO UNSUBSRIBE FROM OUR GRANT BENEFICIARIES LIST http://powmf.4t.com/unsubpage.html



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