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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.
  • +447031943651 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "phil"<phil7000@myway.com>
Reply-To: phil_post4000@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 04:31:50 -0500 (EST)
Subject: 1:11:06


Group Finance DirectorHalifax Bank of Scotland Edinburgh EH3 9PETel:+44 7031943651 Greetings, I am Dr. Phil Hodkinson, Group Finance Director (H.B.O.S) I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. I understand that through Internet is not the best way to link up with you because of the confidentiality which the transaction demands. However, I have already sent you this same letter by post one month ago, but I am not sure if it did get to you since I have not heard from you, hence my resending it again. I discovered a dormant account in my office, as Group finance director with Halifax Bank of Scotland. It will be in my interest to transfer this fund worth 15,000,000 million pounds in an account offshore. If you can be a collaborator to this please indicate interest immediately for us to proceed. Your contact address, full name. Regards and respect, Dr. Phil Hodkinson Group Finance DirectorHalifax Bank of Scotland

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