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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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.
  • +447024079224 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Donald." <donez100@getsemani.com.br>
Reply-To: donez100@sapo.pt
Date: 28 Jul 2006 10:55:50 -0300
Subject: RESPOND!!!

Dear Sir/Madam,

How are you and your family?

Before I introduce myself,I would like to clarify you that this is not a junk mail.I got your contact on the internet and so I'm not contacting you by accident.I hope and prayed to GOD that I am contacting the right person though it maybe hard to believe.I am Donald Ez,Senior Special Assistant to the ex-British Leader of the Opposition,The Rt.Hon.William Jefferson Hague from 1997-2001 and currently the Shadow Foreign Secretary and Senior Member of the Shadow CabinetMy contact to you via this mail is as a matter of urgency and absolute confidentiality.

This is by virtue of my status as a Senior Special Assisitant to the ex-opposition leader.I am contacting you based on my conviction that you will be of inmense help and assistance in carrying out this very important task.I have to do this on behalf of my friend and business associate who would have acted in this noble capacity no thanks to his untimely demise.During his lifetime here,he executed a lot of viable projects and contracts as an accountant/consultant under the shadow of my boss,he also invested a lot in stocks and shares for long-term basis.

The benefits derived from the estimated and over-invoiced contract,as well as the stock and shares amounted to twelve million,five hundred thousand Pounds Sterling £12,500,000 which he banked with "BANK OF SCOTLAND" in nobody's name for fear of possible investigation from the authorities concerned hence reason for writing this letter is to pass this very professional brief to you,asking for your partnership in re-profiling,investing and securing this GBP£12.5 million outside London for safekeeping in any of your choice BANK ACCOUNT.This is because of my status as a serving civil servant still under the government and to avoid been questioned by the "SCOTLAND YARD"(England's Crack Police Unit)or by the British Government.

I am prepared to place you in as the depositor of the fund since there was no name attached and instruct the bank to release the money to you.Upon the successful transfer of the money into your account,I will issue you instructions on how the money will be re-invested into any viable profitable business venture in your organisation or any choiced investments you may advice on.

We can fine-tune this arrangement based on our ability to interact with one another and the advices,assistance and consultations we owe to the success of this noble venture.There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking.I will personally offer you a perfect reward of 30% or £3.75 million.I have evaluated the risks involved in this and the only risk I have here is from you refusing to work with me and turning down my offer.

I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences might be if the "SCOTLAND YARD" or the Government gets insight about this deal,but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold.

This is the one truth I have learned from reputable and distinguished men of success.Do not betray my confidence which I have already reposed in you.If we can be of one accord,we should get on immediately.

I await for your response.

Sincerely,

Donald Ez.

+44 702 407 9224.

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