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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.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +447031941090 (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.
  • evansnorman7@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: evans norman <evansnorman_02@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: evansnorman_2@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:01:32 +0100 (BST)
Subject: YOU WERE LISTED


EVANS NORMAN LAW FIRM,
25 OLD GLOUCESTER STREET.
LONDON WC1N 3XX.
TEL:+44 703 194 1090
Alternative Email:evansnorman7@yahoo.co.uk

Attn:
We act as solicitors and our services have been
retained by Henry Ricin,now late here in after
referred to as our client. On behalf of late Henry
Ricin, I write to notify you that my late client
made you a beneficiary to the bequest sum of One
Million Seven Hundred Thousand British Pounds in
the codicil to his will and last testament.
Henry Ricin died on 8th day February 2005 after a
brief illness at the age of 85. Until his death he
was consultant to several oil and gas industries. He
had a sojourn in the United States and so many other
countries before he came to Cairn Energy PLC an oil
and gas exploration and production company based in
the United Kingdom. He was a knight in the Church
and belonged to several non-governmental and
scientific organizations. He was also great
philanthropist and a Paul Harris Fellow of the
Rotary Club International.
This bequest is to support your activities,
humanitarian services and help to the less-
privileged. In accordance with our inheritance laws
you are required to apply for claims through this
law firm to Finance House United Kingdom, where
this fund was deposited. We are perfecting
arrangements to complete the transfer of this
inheritance to you. You are required to forward the
following details of yours; full names, address,
occupation, age, phone and fax numbers for
verification and re-confirmation. Please acknowledge
the receipt of this letter immeditely.
Congratulations!
Please get in touch with me On My
Private E-mailAddress: evansnorman7@yahoo.co.uk
immediately you get this information.
Yours Faithfully,
Evans Norman Esq



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