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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • +31633711208 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • robertjnr10000@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ROBERT JOHNSON & CO <robertjnr10000@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:12:56 +0200
Subject: i am sorry to tell you that i need your help .......for ........... PARTNERSHIP REQUEST.


ROBERT JOHNSON & CO
NICON HOUSE ste. 4,
HARARIE ZIMBABWE.
EMAIL: robertjnr10000@hotmail.com
TELEPONE NUMBER :+31633711208
Dear Sir,

I am a lawyer resident and practicing in Harare, Zimbabwe. I am using this correspondent to urgently seek and request your assistance in a sensitive but highly beneficial financial arrangement. An important client of mine whose details I can not release at this point has implored me to contact a reliable and trustworthy partner overseas to urgently receive and handle fund totaling FOURTY MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ($40.m) in cash presently lodged n a security out fit in the NETHERLANDS.
Due to my client's inability to travel out of the country presently and the fact that we continue to accumulate huge debts daily as long as this consignment remain in the security we need a friend and partner to proceed as soon as possible and retrieve this money on behalf of my client and handle it as duly instructed. We have agreed in principle to give thirty percent (30%) of the total sun to whoever shall handle these funds for us while the remaining seventy percent shall be for my client and I. As soon as you are ready to proceed and retrieve this cash on our behalf we shall furnish you with the details and information you will need. Please be rest assured that this arrangement is absolutely risk free and can not implicate you in any way, yet I implore you to handle this matter with urgency and utmost confidentiality even if you dot intend to execute the project for us. Whatever is the case please acknowledge receipt of this letter through the above Email address and if your if your response is positive we shall proceed immediately without any delay.
Thanks you in anticipation of your cooperation and hoping to hear from you soon.
Yours sincerely.
ROBERT JOHNSON ESQ.
TELEPONE NUMBER :+31-633-711-208

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