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

Fraud email example:

From: "martinseze@terra.es" <martinseze@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:10:58 +0100 (MET)
Subject: ATTN: HONOURABLE CONTRACTOR



ATTN: HONOURABLE CONTRACTOR
RE: LONG OVER DUE CONTRACT PAYMENT TRANSFER ADVISE IN YOUR FAVOUR:

Dear

I am a director with the Federal Ministry of Finance and was instructed by the Hon Minister of Finance to find out before the end of this month, WHY your contract/ claim of your part payment of $15.5 Million fund have not been credited to your account.

However, two gentlemen who came from your country to claim this fund on your behalf and the reason giving to us was that you are the one who sent them that you are terminally sick and they provided account of Union Bank of Swizterland for the payment to be made.

Kindly reconfirm your banking particulars to us and to know if you are the one that actually sent them, your telephone and fax numbers and your full names

for us to check with the one in our file.
Yours faithfully,
M Martins Eze

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