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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.
  • +447024070366 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Charles Henderson" <charleshenderson2711_1@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 10:48:14 +0100
Subject: Looking for a friend

Hi,
I am one of the transfer officers of Citi Bank, London. Please permit me to make this plea to you and if interested, do not hesitate to get back to me via my email immediately for further action.
Last 5 years, a group of men from Russia were able to move the sum of twenty five million GBP to our branch in London and since then, none of them have shown up to lay claims on the said amount.
Several calls have been made to the owners and none was successful on the numbers given and now I have all the paper work to transfer the funds via our payment office here in London to your account without any trace as all documents will be destroyed by me immediately the transfer has taken place after 5 days of receiving your details.
Please this is very confidential and must not be discussed with anyone else as I have prepared all my documents to resign once transfer is made to your account. Also you will assure me that you will not disappear with the funds hence I make this plea in good faith.
The funds will be shared favourably to avoid greed on both sides. If you are interested, get back to me and we shall get this done.
My telephone number +447024070366.
yours faithfully,
Mr. Charles Henderson.

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