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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 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.
  • paul_net1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DR MACK PHILIP" <mack_net1@latinmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: paul_net1@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 22:31:09 +0100
Subject: I WAIT YOUR URGENT RESPONSE.

From;
Mack

Sorry it was due to my tight schedules I could not contact you,earlier
before now. I am very happy to inform you about my success in getting
that fund under the cooperation of a new partner from India.
Presently I'm in New Delhi with the partner for some projects with
the money. Meanwhile,I did not forget your past efforts and attempts
to assist me in that process despite that it failed us at that
time.Now, I want you to contact my secretary on the information bellow

NAME; MR JOHN PAUL
EMAIL; paul_net1@yahoo.com

ask him to send you the total sum of (850,000.00)Eight hundred and
fifty thousand pounds in A CASHIER'S CHEQUE, which I kept for your
compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in
this matter.I appreciated your efforts at that time very much,So feel
free and get in touch with my secretary MR JOHN PAUL and
instruct him where to send the amount to you.Please do let me know
immediately
you contact him so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness
at that time. In the moment,I am very busy here because of the
projects which I and the new partner are having at hand.

I WAIT YOUR URGENT RESPONSE.
Thanks
Dr PHILIP MACK.

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