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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "search for a reliable person" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • +447092025302 (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.
  • davidjkeddy@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. David Keddy." <davidjkeddy@mail2scientist.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: davidjkeddy@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:56:24 +0000
Subject: Kindly respond to this Financial Blessings

From: Dr. David J. Keddy.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Fax: +44 709 202 5302
E-mail: davidjkeddy@yahoo.co.uk

Dear Sir,

I am Dr. David J. Keddy, a professional staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Department of Health and Human Services, Liverpool, UK. I write to solicit your assistance in a project of mutual benefits.

We got your contact during my search for a reliable person to do this business with. In February 2005, a research grant (US$50Million) was given to my department with me as the leader of a team of other clinical professionals by the International Development Association (IDA) approved by the Board of Directors of the World Bank and World Health Organization (WHO) jointly coordinating the global response to human cases of H5N1 avian influenza otherwise globally known as Bird Flu and monitoring the corresponding threat of an influenza pandemic vis a vis Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR).

The research of Laboratory & Epidemiology Strengthening, Preparedness for Deliberate Epidemics has since been concluded (specifically in February 2006). Of the total amount given to us for the research purposes we only expended US$26 Million and we have returned US$13.5Million back to the World Bank leaving a balance of US$10.5 Million. We are contacting you with a view to transferring this balance out for our own use and using you as the Consultant that supplied most of the biological materials used during the researches carried out by my team. We have put in over 25 years of our lives into working for various governmental Institutions and as academics we do NOT have anything to show for it, hence this opportunity we see as a God-Sent one, meanwhile, we are presently quarantined within the premises of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and we would be kept here for the next six months to one year to be sure that we are not infected by the H!
5N1 avian influenza which is the bird flu.

We sincerely hope that you will be of assistance to us. I implore you to treat this mail as confidentially as possible as we are still active academicians / scientist, though retiring in the next one year. If you are not in a position to assist us, do not respond to this mail and we apologize for taking your time. Upon receipt of your acceptance to assist us in this, we will negotiate on what should be your share from this amount for assisting us. If you are interested in this venture, please send your full names and address and your direct mobile phone and telefax numbers for effective communication.

Please I await your urgent response through my private email to enable us proceed for the transfer once we agreed on the percentages.
Sincerely Yours,
Dr. David J. Keddy

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